Matthew 23:31 - English Majority Text Version 2009

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

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ Thus you are testifying against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.

Common English Bible

³¹ You testify against yourselves that you are children of those who murdered the prophets.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ And so you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets.

Matthew 23:31 Cross References

Matthew 23:30

and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.'

Matthew 23:32

And you, fill up then, the measure of your fathers' guilt.

Matthew 23:34

Therefore, behold, I send you prophets, wise [men], and scribes: some of them you will kill and you will crucify, and [some] of them you will flog in your synagogues and you will persecute from city to city,

Matthew 23:37

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [you] who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

Luke 19:22

And he said to him, 'Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was a harsh man, taking up what I did not deposit, and reaping what I did not sow.