Matthew 3:7

But he saw many of the Pharisees and of (the) Sadducees coming to his baptism, and said to them, Generation of adders (or Children of snakes), who showed to you to flee from the wrath that is to come?

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

In Context

6and they were washed of him [or and they were christened of him] in (the) Jordan, (or and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River), acknowledging their sins.

8Therefore do ye worthy fruits of penance, (And so do worthy fruits of repentance,)

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Cross References

Psalms 58:3Sinners were made aliens from the womb (or Sinners, or evil-doers, go wrong from the womb); they erred from the womb, they spake false things.

Isaiah 59:5The have broken (the) eggs of snakes, and (have) made (the) webs of an araneid; he that eateth of the eggs of them, shall die, and that that is nursed, or hatched, shall break out into a cockatrice.

Jeremiah 51:6Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, that each man save his soul; do not ye be still on the wickedness thereof, for why time of vengeance thereof is to the Lord; he shall yield while to it. (Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, so that each person can save his own soul, or his own life; do not ye stay in the midst of its wickedness, for this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance upon it, and now he shall yield its recompense.)

Ezekiel 33:3and (when) he seeth a sword coming on the land, and soundeth with a clarion (or and bloweth a trumpet), and telleth to the people,

Matthew 12:24But the Pharisees heard, and said, He this (man) casteth not out fiends, (no) but in Beelzebub, (the) prince of (the) fiends. [+But the Pharisees hearing, said, This (man) casteth not out fiends, no but in Beelzebub, prince of devils]. (But the Pharisees heard, and said, He throweth out demons by Beelzebub, the Prince of demons.)

Matthew 15:12Then his disciples came, and said to him, Thou knowest [or Knowest thou], that, if this word be heard, the Pharisees be offended?

Matthew Henry on Matthew 3:2-7

The Preaching of John the Baptist. 1 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 4 And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. 5 Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all… Read the whole commentary →

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