47 "Woe to you! You build tombs 11:47 Or gravesfor the prophets, 11:47 Mt 2:23; Ac 7:52and your fathers killed 11:47 Lk 20:15them.48 Therefore, you are witnesses 11:48 Mt 23:31that you approve 11:48 Lit witnesses and approve, 11:48 Ac 22:20; Rm 1:32the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their monuments. 11:48 Other mss omit their monuments49 Because of this, the wisdom of God 11:49 Pr 1:20–33; 8:1–36; Mt 23:34said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, 11:49 Lk 11:27; 13:1; 15:32; 21:9–10; Jn 13:16; Ac 1:2and some of them they will kill and persecute,’ 11:49 1Th 2:15; 2Tm 3:1250 so that this generation 11:50 Lk 11:29may be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world 11:50 Lit so that the blood of all . . . world may be required of this generation,, 11:50 Heb 9:26; Rv 18:24— 51 from the blood of Abel 11:51 Gn 4:9–10; Heb 12:24; 1Jn 3:12to the blood of Zechariah, 11:51 2Ch 24:20–22who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.
"Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible. 11:51 Lit you, it will be required of this generation