28 In the same way, on the outside you appear good to everybody, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and sins.
29 “How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You make fine tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of those who lived good lives;
30 and you claim that if you had lived during the time of your ancestors, you would not have done what they did and killed the prophets.
31 So you actually admit that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets!
32 Go on, then, and finish up what your ancestors started!
33 You snakes and children of snakes! How do you expect to escape from being condemned to hell?
34 And so I tell you that I will send you prophets and wise men and teachers; you will kill some of them, crucify others, and whip others in the synagogues and chase them from town to town.