Matthew 23:31 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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King 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.

Matthew 23:31 Cross References

Psalm 64:8

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

Lamentations 4:13

For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

Matthew 23:30

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.

Matthew 23:32

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Matthew 23:34

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:

Matthew 23:37

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

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:

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.