That the blood of all the prophets, &c.— "Hereby you will far exceed your fathers in extensive and outrageous instances of wickedness, which God will suffer you to commit, in defiance of greater mercies, and more evident means of conviction, than they ever enjoyed; that you may bring upon the present generation of the Jews, all the terrible wrath threatened and due for national guilt, inshedding the blood of the servants of God in former ages, from the beginning of the world, (Luke 11:51.) even from the blood of righteous Abel, which was shed by Cain on account of religion, and which cried aloud to heaven for vengeance, before the giving of the law, unto the blood of that well known Zacharias, under the law, whom your predecessors stoned to death in the court between the altar of burnt-offering and the temple, for reproving their idolatry, and who, when he died, said, The Lord look upon it, and require it: 2 Chronicles 24:20-22. I assuredly tell you, that God, in his righteous judgment, will revenge all this blood upon the men of this generation, for their still more flagrant iniquity of the same kind, in the utter destruction of their city, temple, and nation."
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Luke 11:50-51
50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
51 From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.