Matthew 23:32

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

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

In Context

31Wherefore ye are witnesses, against yourselves, that ye are the children of them that killed the prophets.

33Ye serpents, ye race of vipers: how can ye escape the condemnation of hell?

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Cross References

1 Thessalonians 2:16and they forbid us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may have life; to fill up their sins at all times. And wrath cometh on them to the uttermost.

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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