And you say, ‘If [only] we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we [certainly] would not have participated with them in [shedding] the blood of the prophets.’
Matthew 23:31 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) [But by saying this] you are witnesses [against] yourselves, that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets [i.e., indicating your approval of their actions]. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Thus you are testifying against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. American Standard Version (1901) Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets. Common English Bible You testify against yourselves that you are children of those who murdered the prophets. Catholic Public Domain Version And so you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets. |
And you say, ‘If [only] we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we [certainly] would not have participated with them in [shedding] the blood of the prophets.’
Therefore look, I am sending to you prophets, wise men and scholarly teachers. You will murder and crucify some of them; you will whip some of them in your synagogues and pursue them from town to town.
“O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [you people] who murdered the prophets and stoned those who were sent to you! How often I have wanted to gather you people together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
The gentleman replied to him, ‘I will judge you [based] on what you [yourself] have [just] said, you evil slave. [Since] you knew that I am a hard man to deal with, picking up [and keeping] something I had not laid down, and harvesting a crop I had not planted,