33 “Serpents, offspring of vipers,+ how will you flee from the judgment of Ge·henʹna?*+

7 So he began to say to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him: “You offspring of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the coming wrath?+ 8 Therefore, produce fruits that befit repentance. Do not start saying to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones. 9 Indeed, the ax is already lying at the root of the trees. Every tree, then, that does not produce fine fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”+

23 Woe to the pregnant women and those nursing a baby in those days!+ For there will be great distress on the land and wrath against this people.