your fathers' deeds; for they truly killed them, and
ye build their sepulchres. (49)Therefore also the wisdom of God hath
said, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they
shall kill, and shall persecute: (50)that the blood of all the
prophets, which hath been shed since the foundation of the world, may
be required of this generation: (51)from the blood of Abel to the blood
of Zachariah, who was slain between the altar and the temple: verily I
tell you, It shall be required of this generation. (52)Wo unto you,
teachers of the law! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge; ye
yourselves enter not in, and those who were entering ye have hindered.

(53)And as he was saying these things unto them, the scribes and
Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to extort answers from him
respecting many things; (54)laying snares for him, and seeking to catch
hold of something from his mouth, that they might accuse him.

CHAP. XII.

MEANTIME myriads of people collecting, so that they trod on one
another, he began to speak to his disciples, Take heed principally of
the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. (2)For there is
nothing concealed, that shall not be laid open; nor hid, which shall
not be known. (3)Wherefore whatsoever things ye have spoken in
darkness, they shall be reported in the light; and what ye have
whispered into the ear in the closets, shall be proclaimed on the
house-tops. (4)But I say to you my friends, Be not afraid of those who
may kill the body, but after that, have nothing farther which they can
do. (5)But I will point out to you, whom ye should fear: Fear him, who,
after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto
you, Fear him! (6)Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, yet not
one of them is forgotten before God? (7)But even the hairs of your head
are all numbered: fear not then, ye are of more value than many
sparrows. (8)But I tell you, Every one who shall confess me before men,
him will the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: (9)but
he that disowns me before men, shall be disowned before the angels of
God. (10)And every one who shall utter a word against the Son of man,
it shall be forgiven him; but for him who hath blasphemed against the
Holy Ghost, there shall be no forgiveness.

(11)And when they shall bring you before the synagogues, and
magistrates, and the ruling powers, be under no anxiety how or what
defence ye shall make, or