Matthew 23:29–36

Let us search carefully what the Savior says. The Jews’ fathers killed the holy prophets in their times, who were ferrying the divine word to them. Those born from them, confessing that the prophets were august and honorable, fitted crowns around them — that is, tombs — assigning the honor most fitting to the holy, and by believing them prophets and holy men they became judges of those who killed them. For by the very means they chose to honor the slain, through those means they accuse their fathers as having acted impiously.

But those who condemned their own fathers for such terrible bloodshed were about to be caught by equal evils — rather, by still worse. They “killed the Author of life,” and added to the impieties against him other bloodsheds against his marvelous disciples. For as long as someone examines others’ injustices judging by natural reasoning, he sees what is base and blames it; but when he himself is led into the same passions, he is carried upon them as if blind.