[31] Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that the children of them which killed the prophets. [32] up then the measure fathers. [33] Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? [34] Wherefore, behold, I send unto prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: [35] That upon may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.