15 You are the offsprings of the vipers, and how can you be but serpents of the dust?
16 God now has sent again to you his prophets and his seers, his wise men and his holy men, and you will scourge them in your synagogues, and stone them in the streets, and nail them to the cross.
17 Woe unto you! for on your heads will come the blood of all the holy men who have been slain upon the earth,
18 From righteous Abel down to Zacharias, son of Barachias, who was slain within the Holy Place before the altar of the Lord.
19 Behold, I say that these things all shall come upon this nation and the people of Jerusalem.
20 And Jesus looked about and said, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou cruel city of Jerusalem, that slays the prophets in the streets and kills the holy men whom God has sent to you!
21 Lo, I would oft have gathered you as children to the fold of God; but you would not.
22 You have rejected God, and now your house is desolate, and you shall see me not again till you can say,
23 Thrice blessed is the son of man who comes as son of God.
24 Then Jesus went and sat beside the treasury and watched the people as they paid their tithes.