Matthew 23:32
And, ye, fill ye up the measure of your fathers!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
In Context
31So that ye bear witness against yourselves, that ye are, sons, of them who murdered the prophets.
33Serpents! broods of vipers! how should ye flee from the judgment of gehenna?
Cross References
Numbers 32:14Lo! therefore, ye have arisen in the room of your fathers, a brood of sinful men,—to heap up yet more upon the heat of the anger of Yahweh, towards Israel.
1 Thessalonians 2:16Hindering us from speaking, unto the nations, that they might be saved, to the filling up of their own sins, continually; but anger hath overtaken them at length.
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 →