49^b Therefore, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles;^* some of them they will kill and persecute’ 50in order that this generation might be charged with the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world, 51from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah^* who died between the altar and the temple building. Yes, I tell you, this generation will be charged with their blood!^c 52Woe to you, scholars of the law! You have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves did not enter and you stopped those trying to enter.”^d 53When he left, the scribes and Pharisees began to act with hostility toward him and to interrogate him about many things,^e 54for they were plotting to catch him at something he might say.^f