Woe to you! You build the memorials of the prophets whom your ancestors killed. Consequently, you bear witness and give consent to the deeds of your ancestors, for they killed them and you do the building…
Yes, I tell you, this generation will be charged with their blood! Woe to you, scholars of the law! You have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves did not enter and you stopped those trying to enter."… (Lk 11:47-54)
This generation is responsible for all the evil done by the forefathers. The reason is because, they recognize and appreciate the evil done by their forefathers by building monuments to them. In fact they are the witnesses to this age of the evil done by the past. One need not be a killer to be charged with murder; it is enough that he recognizes by action, the evil done.
Each and every one is, in one way or the other, a collaborator of the evil done from the beginning of creation. Everyone stands condemned for the evil in the society. No way of excuse to escape from being responsible for the evil in the society.
Scholars have prevented the knowledge. Knowledge in the biblical sense would mean the experience. The scholars have prevented the experience of God from the people. They themselves did not enjoy this experience and they prevented the others to have. The laws and the rules they prescribe are so much that they take away the experience.
