and you like to be bowed to in places of public resort.
011:044 Alas for you! for you are like the tombs which lie hidden,
and the people who walk over them are not aware of their existence."
011:045 Hereupon one of the expounders of the Law exclaimed, "Rabbi,
in saying such things you reproach us also."
011:046 "Alas too for you expounders of the Law!" replied Jesus,
"for you load men with cumbrous burdens which you yourselves
will not touch with one of your fingers.
011:047 Alas for you! for you repair the tombs of the Prophets,
whom your forefathers killed.
011:048 It follows that you bear testimony to the actions of
your forefathers and that you fully approve thereof.
They slew, you build.
011:049 "For this reason also the Wisdom of God has said, `I will send
Prophets and Apostles to them, of whom they will kill some
and persecute others,'
011:050 so that the blood of all the Prophets, that is being shed
from the creation of the world onwards, may be required
from the present generation.
011:051 Yes, I tell you that, from the blood of Abel down to the blood
of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the House,
it shall all be required from the present generation.
011:052 "Alas for you expounders of the Law! for you have taken away
the key of knowledge: you yourselves have not entered,
and those who wanted to enter you have hindered."
011:053 After He had left the house, the Scribes and Pharisees commenced
a vehement attempt to entangle Him and make Him give off-hand
answers on numerous points,
011:054 lying in wait to catch some unguarded expression from His lips.
012:001 Meanwhile the people had come streaming towards Him by tens