MATTHEW 24 – Important Key to Understanding Bible Prophecy – Textbook

Matthew 23:29-39, “29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs
of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous, 30 And say, If we had been in the days
of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. 31 Wherefore
ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. 32 Fill ye
up then the measure of your fathers. 33 [Ye] serpents, [ye] generation of vipers, how can ye escape
the damnation of hell? 34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes:
and [some] of them ye shall kill and crucify; and [some] of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues,
and persecute [them] from city to city: 35 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. 36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this
generation. 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [thou] that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are
sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her
chickens under [her] wings, and ye would not! 38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. 39 For
I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed [is] he that cometh in the
name of the Lord.”