Matthew 23:31

Therefore you testify against yourselves that you are sons of those who killed the prophets.

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

In Context

30You say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been participants with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'

32You also fill up the measure of your fathers.

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Cross References

Job 15:5for your iniquity teaches your mouth; 1 you choose to have the tongue of a crafty man. 1

Luke 19:22The nobleman said to him, 'By your own words I will judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I am a demanding person, that I take up what I did not put in, and that I reaped what I did not sow.

1 Thessalonians 2:15It was the Jews who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets. It was the Jews who drove us out. They do not please God. Instead, they are hostile to all people.

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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