Matthew 23:32

Fill up the measure of your ancestor’s guilt.

Twentieth Century New Testament

In The King James Version

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

In Context

31By doing this you are furnishing evidence against yourselves that you are true children of the men who murdered the Prophets.

33You serpents and brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to the Pit?

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Cross References

1 Thessalonians 2:16for they would prevent us from speaking to the Gentiles with a view to their Salvation, and thus are always ‘filling up the measure of their iniquity.’ But the Wrath of God has come upon them to the full!

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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