Matt 23:27 ¶ "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.
Matt 23:28 "So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
Matt 23:29 ¶ "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,
Matt 23:30 and say, 'If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'
Matt 23:31 "So you testify against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.
Matt 23:32 "Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers.
Matt 23:33 "You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?
Matt 23:34 ¶ "Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city,
Matt 23:35 so that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
Matt 23:36 "Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.
Matt 23:37 ¶ "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.
Matt 24:1 Jesus came out from the temple and was going away when His disciples came up to point out the temple buildings to Him.
Matt 24:2 And He said to them, "Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone here will be left upon another, which will not be torn down."
Matt 24:3 ¶ As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?"
Matt 24:4 ¶ And Jesus answered and said to them, "See to it that no one misleads you.
Matt 24:5 "For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many.
Matt 24:6 "You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end.
Matt 24:7 "For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes.
Matt 24:8 "But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.
Matt 24:9 ¶ "Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.