For the other nations are not guilty of this injustice against us and Christ in the same way as ye are. For you are the cause that even they are so prejudiced against the Righteous One, and against us who are His. For after you crucified Him the only spotless and righteous man, by means of whose stripes there is healing for them who come unto the Father by Him, when ye knew Him as risen from the dead and ascended into heaven — as the Prophets stated before should happen — ye not only did not repent for the ills ye did, but chose selected men from Jerusalem and then sent them out into all the earth, saying that a godless sect, namely, of Christians had appeared, and recounting what all who know us not are wont to say against us. So that ye not only are the cause of iniquity for yourselves, but in fact for all others.
And rightly does Isaiah cry out: Because of you is my name spoken ill of among the nations and, Woe to their soul, because they have counselled evil counsel against themselves, saying: Let us bind the righteous, because he is inconvenient to us. Therefore shall they eat the offspring of their own deeds. Woe to the lawless. Evil shall happen to him according to the works of his hands. And again elsewhere: Woe to them who draw their sins as with a long rope, and their transgressions as with a heifer’s yoke-thong, who say: Let His speed draw near, and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it. Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; who set light as darkness, and darkness as light; who set the bitter as sweet, and the sweet as bitter.Isaiah 5:18-20
Against the only spotless and righteous Light therefore, sent to men from God, were ye zealous that these bitter and dark and unjust tales should be spread throughout all the earth. For He seemed to be inconvenient to you, when He cried aloud among you: It is written, My house is a house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of robbers. And He overthrew the tables of them that changed money in the temple.
And He cried out: Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. Because ye tithe the mint and the rue, but the love of God and judgment ye do not consider. Whitened tombs, appearing fair without, but within full of dead bones! And to the Scribes, Woe to you, Scribes, because ye have the keys, and ye yourselves do not enter in, and ye hinder them that are entering in. Blind guides!Matthew 23:23 Matthew 23:27 Luke 11:42 Matthew 23:14 Luke 11:52 Matthew 23:16 Matthew 23:24