Why do the nations rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.

If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause:

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

And it came to pass on the next day, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,

And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have you done this?

Keep far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay you not: for I will not justify the wicked.

And you shall speak unto him, saying, Thus says the LORD, Have you killed, and also taken possession? And you shall speak unto him, saying, Thus says the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your blood, even yours.

He that justifies the wicked, and he that condemns the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.

But know you for certain, that if you put me to death, you shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon its inhabitants: for of a truth the LORD has sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

Behold, the princes of Israel, each one in you used his power to shed blood.

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten me, says the Lord GOD.

Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

Fill you up then the measure of your fathers.

Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall you scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:

Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them who showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers:

And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.

And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

You have condemned and killed the just; and he does not resist you.

And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great wonder.