Matthew 23:32
and ye — ye fill up the measure of your fathers.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
In Context
31So that ye testify to yourselves, that ye are sons of them who did murder the prophets;
33'Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?
Cross References
Numbers 32:14'And lo, ye have risen in the stead of your fathers, an increase of men — sinners, to add yet to the fury of the anger of Jehovah toward Israel;
1 Thessalonians 2:16forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always, but the anger did come upon them — to the end!
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 →