World English Bible
Matthew 23:34
“Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;”
Verse in context — Matthew 23
32
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
33
You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?
34
Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;
35
that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.
36
Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.
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