Matthew 23:33

Snakes, you banim of nachashim, how can you escape the Yom HaDin of Gehinnom?

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

In Context

32And you fill up the measure of your Avot.

34For this reason hinei! I send to you Neviim and Chachamim and Sofrim, some of whom you will kill and some you will make talui al haetz + 23:34 Dt 21:23 (being hanged on the Tree) and some you will subject to the shot (whip) in your shuls, and you will drive them out from city to city,

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Cross References

Psalms 58:3No, in lev (heart) ye work wickedness; 1 ye weigh out the chamas (violence) of your hands in Ha'Aretz. 1

Matthew 3:7But when he saw many of the Perushim and Tzedukim coming to where he was using the Yarden as a mikveh mayim, Yochanan said to them, You banim (sons) of nachashim (snakes)! Who warned you to flee from the charon af + 3:7 Hashem habah (the coming burning wrath) [of Hashem]?

Matthew 12:34You banim of nechashim (sons of snakes), how are you able to speak tovot (good things), for out of the abundance of the lev (heart) the mouth speaks.

Matthew 23:13But oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevuim (hypocrites), for in front of Bnei Adam you shut the Malchut HaShomayim. You do not go in yourselves, and the ones entering, you do not permit to enter.

Luke 3:7Therefore, Yochanan was saying to the multitudes coming out to have the mikveh mayimʼs tevilah supervised by him, You banim of nachashim, who warned you to flee from the charon af + 3:7 Hashem [ Hashem] habah (the coming burning wrath [of Hashem])?

2 Corinthians 11:3But I fear lest somehow as the Nachash deceived Chavah by his cunning, + 11:3 Gn 3:1-6,13 your machshavot should be led astray from a simple and pure deveykus to Moshiach.

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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