Saying: if we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets. The Pharisees' self-distancing from the prophets' killers: if we had been there, we would not have done it. The would-not-have is the self-righteous assumption that they are different from their ancestors.

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