Bible verse

Matthew 23:31

So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Matthew 23:31 · BSB

Matthew 23:31 in context

The verses around it, from Matthew 23.

27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.

28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.

30 And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

32 Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.

33 You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?

34 Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.

35 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

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Matthew 23:31 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.

ERV

Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.

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