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Matthew 23:31

29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

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

Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.
KJV
Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
WEB
Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.
ASV
Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.
DARBY
So that ye bear witness of yourselves that ye are sons of those who slew the prophets:
BLB
Thus you⁺ bear witness to yourselves that you⁺ are sons of those having murdered the prophets.
ÅB
Så gir dere altså dere selv det vitnesbyrdet at dere er barn av de som slo profetene ihjel.
OTB
Ved å si dette, erkjenner dere at dere er etterkommere av dem som myrdet profetene.
B1930
Så gir I da eder selv det vidnesbyrd at I er deres barn som slo profetene ihjel;

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Cross references

  • Acts 7:51–52

    Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

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  • 1 Thessalonians 2:15–16

    Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

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  • Job 15:5–6

    For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

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  • Joshua 24:22

    And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.

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  • Luke 19:22

    And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:

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  • Psalms 64:8

    So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

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