44 How terrible for you! You are like unmarked graves which people walk on without knowing it.”
45 One of the teachers of the Law said to him, “Teacher, when you say this, you insult us too!”
46 Jesus answered, “How terrible also for you teachers of the Law! You put loads on people's backs which are hard to carry, but you yourselves will not stretch out a finger to help them carry those loads.
47 How terrible for you! You make fine tombs for the prophets — the very prophets your ancestors murdered.
48 You yourselves admit, then, that you approve of what your ancestors did; they murdered the prophets, and you build their tombs.
49 For this reason the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and messengers; they will kill some of them and persecute others.’
50 So the people of this time will be punished for the murder of all the prophets killed since the creation of the world,