¹⁶ But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers,^(A) despising his words,^(B) and scoffing at his prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against his people that there was no remedy.^(C)

³¹ So you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

⁵² Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute?^(A) They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers^(B) you have now become.