MATTHEW 23:35 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“That upon you 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.”
So that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. The accumulated blood of the prophets — from Abel (the first martyr in Genesis 4) to Zechariah (the last martyr in the Hebrew Bible's arrangement, 2 Chronicles 24:20–21) — is charged to the generation that kills Jesus. The blood that has been shed throughout the prophetic tradition reaches its climax in the rejection of the one to whom all the prophets pointed.
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