Jesus words of indictment and judgment in the Gospel according to Matthew have fueled centuries of Christian anti-Judaism and the horrors of the twentieth-century Holocaust. The solemn parables and pronouncements of judgment in chapters 2223 come to a climax in Jesus ironic command that the scribes and Pharisees fill up the measure of their ancestors, bringing upon their generation the judgment of God (Matt. 23:3236). But what did those words originally...