Matthew 23:31

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

Revised King James New Testament

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

32Fill up, then, the measure of the sins of your fathers.

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Cross References

Luke 19:22And he said to him, Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow:

1 Thessalonians 2:15Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us. They do not please God, and oppose 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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