Matthew 23:31 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³¹ Thus you witness against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ 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

Because of their tongue he will bring them to ruin; all who see them will wag their heads.

Lamentations 4:13

This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous.

Matthew 23:30

saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

Matthew 23:32

Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

Matthew 23:34

Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,

Matthew 23:37

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!

Luke 19:22

He said to him, ‘I will condemn you out of your own mouth, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?

Joshua 24:22

Then Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord, to serve him.” And they said, “We are witnesses.”