Matthew 3:7

Good News Translation

When John saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to him to be baptized, he said to them, “You snakes—who told you that you could escape from the punishment God is about to send?

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

I will make you and the woman hate each other; her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and you will bite her offspring's heel.”

Proverbs 28:4

If you have no regard for the law, you are on the side of the wicked; but if you obey it, you are against them.

Isaiah 59:5

The evil plots you make are as deadly as the eggs of a poisonous snake. Crush an egg, out comes a snake! But your plots will do you no good—they are as useless as clothing made of cobwebs!

Jeremiah 51:6

Run away from Babylonia! Run for your lives! Do not be killed because of Babylonia's sin. I am now taking my revenge and punishing it as it deserves.

Jeremiah 6:10

I answered, “Who would listen to me if I spoke to them and warned them? They are stubborn and refuse to listen to your message; they laugh at what you tell me to say.

Matthew 12:24

When the Pharisees heard this, they replied, “He drives out demons only because their ruler Beelzebul gives him power to do so.”

Matthew 12:34

You snakes—how can you say good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Matthew 15:12

Then the disciples came to him and said, “Do you know that the Pharisees had their feelings hurt by what you said?”

Matthew 16:1

Some Pharisees and Sadducees who came to Jesus wanted to trap him, so they asked him to perform a miracle for them, to show that God approved of him.

Matthew 16:6

Jesus said to them, “Take care; be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Matthew 22:15

The Pharisees went off and made a plan to trap Jesus with questions.

Matthew 22:23

That same day some Sadducees came to Jesus and claimed that people will not rise from death.

Matthew 22:34

When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they came together,

Matthew 23:33

You snakes and children of snakes! How do you expect to escape from being condemned to hell?

Matthew 5:20

I tell you, then, that you will be able to enter the Kingdom of heaven only if you are more faithful than the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees in doing what God requires.

Mark 12:13

Some Pharisees and some members of Herod's party were sent to Jesus to trap him with questions.

Mark 12:18

Then some Sadducees, who say that people will not rise from death, came to Jesus and said,

Mark 8:15

“Take care,” Jesus warned them, “and be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”

Luke 16:14

When the Pharisees heard all this, they made fun of Jesus, because they loved money.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood apart by himself and prayed, ‘I thank you, God, that I am not greedy, dishonest, or an adulterer, like everybody else. I thank you that I am not like that tax collector over there.

Luke 7:30

But the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law rejected God's purpose for themselves and refused to be baptized by John.

John 1:24

The messengers, who had been sent by the Pharisees,

John 8:44

You are the children of your father, the Devil, and you want to follow your father's desires. From the very beginning he was a murderer and has never been on the side of truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he is only doing what is natural to him, because he is a liar and the father of all lies.

John 9:40

Some Pharisees who were there with him heard him say this and asked him, “Surely you don't mean that we are blind, too?”

Acts 15:5

But some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and told to obey the Law of Moses.”

Acts 20:31

Watch, then, and remember that with many tears, day and night, I taught every one of you for three years.

Acts 26:5

They have always known, if they are willing to testify, that from the very first I have lived as a member of the strictest party of our religion, the Pharisees.

Acts 5:17

Then the High Priest and all his companions, members of the local party of the Sadducees, became extremely jealous of the apostles; so they decided to take action.

Romans 1:18

God's anger is revealed from heaven against all the sin and evil of the people whose evil ways prevent the truth from being known.

Romans 5:9

By his blood we are now put right with God; how much more, then, will we be saved by him from God's anger!

1 Thessalonians 1:10

and to wait for his Son to come from heaven—his Son Jesus, whom he raised from death and who rescues us from God's anger that is coming.

Hebrews 11:7

It was faith that made Noah hear God's warnings about things in the future that he could not see. He obeyed God and built a boat in which he and his family were saved. As a result, the world was condemned, and Noah received from God the righteousness that comes by faith.

Hebrews 6:18

There are these two things, then, that cannot change and about which God cannot lie. So we who have found safety with him are greatly encouraged to hold firmly to the hope placed before us.

1 John 3:10

Here is the clear difference between God's children and the Devil's children: those who do not do what is right or do not love others are not God's children.