Matthew 23:34
Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets, sages, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town.
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In Context
33You serpents, you brood of vipers! How will you escape being sentenced to hell?
Cross References
Matthew 10:16“Behold, I am sending you out like sheep in the midst of wolves, so be as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves.
Matthew 13:52Then he said to them, “Every scribe that has been trained as a disciple for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who brings out of his treasure things new and old.”
Matthew 28:19Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Luke 24:47and for repentance and remission of sins to be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
John 20:21Again Jesus said to them, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you.”
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 →