Matthew 3:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.

Proverbs 28:4

Those who have no respect for the law give praise to the evil-doer; but such as keep the law are against him.

Isaiah 59:5

They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake.

Jeremiah 51:6

Go in flight out of Babylon, so that every man may keep his life; do not be cut off in her evil-doing: for it is the time of the Lord's punishment; he will give her her reward.

Jeremiah 6:10

To whom am I to give word, witnessing so that they may take note? see, their ears are stopped, and they are not able to give attention: see, the word of the Lord has been a cause of shame to them, they have no delight in it.

Matthew 12:24

But the Pharisees, hearing of it, said, This man only sends evil spirits out of men by Beelzebub, the ruler of evil spirits.

Matthew 12:34

You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.

Matthew 15:12

Then the disciples came and said to him, Did you see that the Pharisees were troubled when these words came to their ears?

Matthew 16:1

And the Pharisees and Sadducees came and, testing him, made a request to him to give them a sign from heaven.

Matthew 16:6

And Jesus said to them, Take care to have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Matthew 22:15

Then the Pharisees went and had a meeting to see how they might make use of his words to take him.

Matthew 22:23

On the same day there came to him the Sadducees, who say that there is no coming back from the dead: and they put a question to him, saying,

Matthew 22:34

But the Pharisees, hearing how the mouths of the Sadducees had been stopped, came together;

Matthew 23:33

For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;

Matthew 5:20

For I say to you, If your righteousness is not greater than the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never go into the kingdom of heaven.

Mark 12:13

Then they sent to him certain of the Pharisees and the Herodians, so that they might make use of his words to take him by a trick.

Mark 12:18

And there came to him Sadducees, who say there is no coming back from the dead; and they put a question to him, saying,

Mark 8:15

And he said to them, Take care to be on the watch against the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.

Luke 16:14

And the Pharisees, who had a great love of money, hearing these things, were making sport of him.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer.

Luke 7:30

But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law were against the purpose of God for themselves, not having had his baptism.

John 1:24

Those who had been sent came from the Pharisees.

John 8:44

You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

John 9:40

These words came to the ears of the Pharisees who were with him and they said to him, Are we, then, blind?

Acts 15:5

But some of the Pharisees, who were of the faith, got up and said, It is necessary for these to have circumcision and to keep the law of Moses.

Acts 20:31

So keep watch, having in mind that for three years without resting I was teaching every one of you, day and night, with weeping.

Acts 26:5

And they are able to say, if they would give witness, that I was living as a Pharisee, in that division of our religion which is most regular in the keeping of the law.

Acts 5:17

But the high priest and those who were with him the Sadducees were full of envy,

Romans 1:18

For there is a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against all the wrongdoing and evil thoughts of men who keep down what is true by wrongdoing;

Romans 5:9

Much more, if we now have righteousness by his blood, will salvation from the wrath of God come to us through him.

1 Thessalonians 1:10

Waiting for his Son from heaven, who came back from the dead, even Jesus, our Saviour from the wrath to come.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, being moved by the fear of God, made ready an ark for the salvation of his family, because God had given him news of things which were not seen at the time; and through it the world was judged by him, and he got for his heritage the righteousness which is by faith.

Hebrews 6:18

So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;

1 John 3:10

In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.