Matthew 23:31

So that ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of those who killed the prophets;

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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 in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

32and fill ye up the measure of your fathers!

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Cross References

Luke 19:22And he says to him: Out of thy mouth will I judge thee, wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up what I laid not down, and reaping what I did not sow?

1 Thessalonians 2:15who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us forth, and please not God, and are contrary to 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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