all the righteous blood] So terrible should be the judgement inflicted on the Jews, that they might seem to answer for all the murders of the godly slain from the beginning to that day: yet it was not equall to their sins, which were better known to God then to the world. So Revelation 18:24. from the blood of righteous Abel] Genesis 4:8. of Zacharias] It may be Zchariah the prophet; for both names agree, Zechariah 1:1. and he was one of the last prophets; but his death is not set down in the old testament: therefore others take him to be another of that name, mentioned, 2 Chronicles 24:22. Luke 11:50. These are named, because the blood of the one cried for vengeance, Genesis 4:10. and the mouth of the other, at his death, 2 Chronicles 24:22. Or, because the one was the first righteous man, and the other the last prophet, whose murder is recorded in the old testament. whom ye slew] Because the nation is still accounted the same. So Mark 10:3. Joh. 6 32. and 7. 19, 22. Acts 7:38.