28 In the same way, on the outside you also appear righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites!—because you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous,
30 and you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the prophets!’
31 Thus you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets!
32 And you—fill up the measure of your fathers!
33 Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How will you escape from the condemnation to hell?
34 For this reason, behold, I am sending to you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and will pursue from town to town,