Matthew 23:31 · KJV
“Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.”
— Matthew 23:31
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.
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Matthew 23 — Context
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
30And 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.
31Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
33{Ye} serpents, {ye} generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
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.
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: {persecuted us: or, chased us out}
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:
Job 15:5-6
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. {uttereth: Heb. teacheth}
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.
Psalms 64:8
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.