That is why the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’
In context
47How terrible for you, because you build the tombs of the prophets — and your fathers were the ones who killed them. 48So you are witnesses, and you approve of what your fathers did: they did the killing and you do the building. 49That is why the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’ 50so that this generation may be held to account for the blood of all the prophets poured out since the foundation of the world, 51from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held to account.
