Matthew 23:31

But by saying this you testify against yourselves, proving that you belong to those who murdered the prophets!

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

30and you say, ‘If we had lived in the times of our ancestors we would not have joined them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

32So get on with it—finish it all off using your forefathers' methods!

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Cross References

Job 15:5It's your sins that are doing the talking, and you are choosing deceptive words.

Luke 19:22‘I'll judge you by your own words,’ the king replied. ‘You know I'm a hard man, who as you say, takes what doesn't belong to me, and I harvest what I didn't plant.

1 Thessalonians 2:15who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and chased us out. They don't please God and they are hostile to everyone,

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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