Matthew 23:32
Then fill ye up the measure of your fathers.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
In Context
31So then ye testify to yourselves that ye are sons of those who murdered the prophets.
33Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how will ye escape from the damnation of hell?
Cross References
Numbers 32:14And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of LORD toward Israel.
1 Thessalonians 2:16Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles so that they might be saved, in order to fill up their sins always. But wrath came upon them finally.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 23:14-34
The Crimes of the Pharisees. 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. 14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. 15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make… Read the whole commentary →