Matthew 23:32
and you fill up the measure of your fathers.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
In Context
31So that you testify to yourselves that you are sons of them who murdered the prophets;
33Serpents! Brood of vipers! How may you escape from the judgment of Gehenna?
Cross References
Numbers 32:14And behold, you have risen in the stead of your fathers, an increase of sinful men, to add yet to the fury of the anger of YHWH toward Israel;
1 Thessalonians 2:16forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, so as to always fill up their sins, but [God’s] anger came on them—to the end!
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 →