The Tombs of the Prophets.

Jesus said to the Pharisees and Lawyers: "'Woe to you!  For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors killed.'"  Luke 11:48 (NRSV)

By this Jesus was saying that those who killed the prophets sent by God had appropriated their legacy and turned it back into the authoritarian carrot and stick method of judgement and punishment.

And I say that the same thing has happened in the Church of Jesus.

And that the descendants of those who killed Jesus now run his Church.

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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