Matthew 23:31

So you witness to yourselves, that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

30and you say, If we were in the days of our fathers we would not have been their fellow-partakers in the blood of the prophets.

32And you fill up the measure of your fathers.

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Cross References

Luke 19:22And he says to him, Out of thine own mouth I will judge thee, thou wicked servant. Didst thou know that I am an austere man, taking up what I have not laid down, and reaping what I have not sown?

1 Thessalonians 2:15who even killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us, and are displeasing to God, and hostile to all men;

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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