it is that on your heads may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of Abel the upright to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar!

Righteous Father, though the world did not know you, I knew you, and these men knew that you had sent me.

But you disowned the Holy, Righteous One. You asked to have a murderer released for you,

Which of the prophets did your forefathers not persecute? They killed the men who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and killed??53 you who had the Law given to you by angels, and did not obey it!"

and he said, 'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to learn his will and to see his Righteous One and hear him speak,

So as one offense meant condemnation for all men, just so one righteous act means acquittal and life for all men.

But of the Son he says, "God is your throne forever and ever! And a righteous scepter is the scepter of his kingdom!

And he whom I accept as righteous will find life through his faith. But if a man draws back, my heart can take no pleasure in him."