Matthew 23:31

Wherefore ye are witnesses, against yourselves, that ye are the children of them that killed the prophets.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 ye say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been participators with them in the blood of the prophets.

32And as for you, fill ye up the measure of your fathers.

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Cross References

Luke 19:22He said to him: Out of thy own mouth will I judge thee, thou evil servant. Thou knewest me, that I am a hard man, and that I take up what I laid not down, and reap what I sowed not!

1 Thessalonians 2:15the persons who slew our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and persecuted their own prophets and us; and they please not God, and are made 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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