Matthew 23:31

So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

In Context

30If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.

32Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.

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Cross References

Job 15:5For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.

Luke 19:22He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed;

1 Thessalonians 2:15Who put to death the Lord Jesus and the prophets, violently driving us out; who are unpleasing to God and against all men;

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 →

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