Matthew 23:35

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Summary

That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

Upon

The blood of righteous

Unto

2 Chronicles 24:20

Zechariah 1:1

Luke 11:51

General references

John 10:31

Bible References

Upon

And indeed your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require: at the hand of every animal will I require it, and at the hand of Man, at the hand of each the blood of his brother, will I require the life of Man.

And ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are; for blood, it polluteth the land; and there can be no atonement made for the land, for the blood that hath been shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

and shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

And Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another; beside his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing evil in the sight of Jehovah.

and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Jehovah would not pardon.

For behold, Jehovah cometh out of his place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth upon them; and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

In vain have I smitten your children: they received no correction. Your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

only know for certain that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof; for of a truth Jehovah hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

It is for the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the righteous in the midst of her.

And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all the slain upon the earth.

The blood of righteous

And Cain spoke to Abel his brother, and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained testimony of being righteous, God bearing testimony to his gifts, and by it, having died, he yet speaks.

and to Jesus, mediator of a new covenant; and to the blood of sprinkling, speaking better than Abel.

For this is the message which ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:

Unto

And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood up above the people and said unto them, Thus saith God: Wherefore do ye transgress the commandments of Jehovah? And ye cannot prosper; for ye have forsaken Jehovah, and he hath forsaken you.

In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah unto Zechariah the prophet, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yea, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.

General references

And Jehovah spoke by his servants the prophets saying,

A troubled fountain, and a defiled well, is a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.

Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.

Moreover those mine enemies, who would not have me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.

The Jews therefore again took stones that they might stone him.