Matthew 23:33
Serpents, birth of vipers! how will you escape from the judgment of gihana?
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
In Context
32And you also,-complete the measure of your fathers.
Cross References
Matthew 3:7But when he saw many of the Pharishee and Zodukoyee coming to be baptized, he said to them, Generation of vipers, who hath showed you to escape from the wrath that cometh?
Matthew 12:34Brood of vipers! how can you speak good who are evil? For from the abundancies of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Matthew 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! because you hold the kingdom of heaven closed before the children of men; for you will not enter in yourselves, and them who are entering you will not permit to enter.
Luke 3:7And he said to those multitudes who came to him to be baptized, O brood of vipers, who hath showed you to flee from the wrath that cometh?
2 Corinthians 11:3But I fear lest, as the serpent deceived 'Hava by his guile, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is toward the Meshiha.
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 →