"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 proph…" — Matthew 23:30

Matthew 23:30 · KJV

“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.”

— Matthew 23:30

Verse 29

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

Verse 31

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

Matthew 23 — Context

Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

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

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.

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Cross References

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Matthew 21:35-36

And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

Matthew 23:34-35

Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and {some} of them ye shall kill and crucify; and {some} of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute {them} from city to city:

2 Chronicles 36:15

And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: {by: Heb. by the hand of} {betimes: that is, continually and carefully}