Matthew 3:7

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Many Pharisees and Sadducees came to where John was baptizing people. When John saw them, he said, “You are all snakes! Who warned you to run from God’s judgment that is coming?

Cross References

Matthew 12:34

You snakes! You are so evil. How can you say anything good? What people say with their mouths comes from what fills their hearts.

1 Thessalonians 1:10

And you began waiting for God’s Son to come from heaven—the Son God raised from death. He is Jesus, who saves us from God’s angry judgment that is coming.

Romans 1:18

God shows his anger from heaven against all the evil and wrong things that people do. Their evil lives hide the truth they have.

Matthew 23:33

“You are snakes! You are from a family of poisonous snakes! You will not escape God. You will all be judged guilty and go to hell!

Romans 5:9

We have been made right with God by the blood sacrifice of Christ. So through Christ we will surely be saved from God’s anger.

Matthew 22:23

That same day some Sadducees came to Jesus. (Sadducees believe that no one will rise from death.) The Sadducees asked Jesus a question.

Matthew 16:6

Jesus said to the followers, “Be careful! Guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.”

1 John 3:10

So we can see who God’s children are and who the devil’s children are. These are the ones who are not God’s children: those who don’t do what is right and those who do not love their brothers and sisters in God’s family.

John 9:40

Some of the Pharisees were near Jesus. They heard him say this. They asked, “What? Are you saying that we are blind too?”

Jeremiah 51:6

Run away from Babylon. Run to save your lives! Don’t stay and be killed because of Babylon’s sins! It is time for the Lord to punish the Babylonians for the bad things they have done. Babylon will get the punishment that she should have.

Jeremiah 6:10

Who can I speak to? Who can I warn? Who will listen to me? The people of Israel have closed their ears, so they cannot hear my warnings. They don’t like the Lord’s teachings. They don’t want to hear his message.

Hebrews 11:7

Noah was warned by God about things that he could not yet see. But he had faith and respect for God, so he built a large boat to save his family. With his faith, Noah showed that the world was wrong. And he became one of those who are made right with God through faith.

Acts 26:5

These Jews have known me for a long time. If they want to, they can tell you that I was a good Pharisee. And the Pharisees obey the laws of the Jewish religion more carefully than any other group.

Acts 20:31

So be careful! And always remember what I did during the three years I was with you. I never stopped reminding each one of you how you should live, counseling you day and night and crying over you.

Acts 15:5

Some of the believers in Jerusalem had belonged to the Pharisees. They stood up and said, “The non-Jewish believers must be circumcised. We must tell them to obey the Law of Moses!”

Acts 5:17

The high priest and all his friends, a group called the Sadducees, became very jealous.

John 8:44

Your father is the devil. You belong to him. You want to do what he wants. He was a murderer from the beginning. He was always against the truth. There is no truth in him. He is like the lies he tells. Yes, the devil is a liar. He is the father of lies.

John 1:24

These Jews were sent from the Pharisees.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood alone, away from the tax collector. When the Pharisee prayed, he said, ‘O God, I thank you that I am not as bad as other people. I am not like men who steal, cheat, or commit adultery. I thank you that I am better than this tax collector.

Luke 16:14

The Pharisees were listening to all these things. They criticized Jesus because they all loved money.

Luke 7:30

But the Pharisees and experts in the law refused to accept God’s plan for themselves; they did not let John baptize them.)

Mark 12:18

Then some Sadducees came to Jesus. (Sadducees believe that no one will rise from death.) They asked him a question:

Mark 12:13

Later, the Jewish leaders sent some Pharisees and some men from the group called Herodians to Jesus. They wanted to catch him saying something wrong.

Mark 8:15

Jesus warned them, “Be careful! Guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”

Matthew 22:34

The Pharisees learned that Jesus had made the Sadducees look so foolish that they stopped trying to argue with him. So the Pharisees had a meeting.

Matthew 22:15

Then the Pharisees left the place where Jesus was teaching. They made plans to catch him saying something wrong.

Matthew 12:24

When the Pharisees heard this, they said, “This man uses the power of Satan to force demons out of people. Satan is the ruler of demons.”

Matthew 5:20

I tell you that you must do better than the teachers of the law and the Pharisees. If you are not more pleasing to God than they are, you will never enter God’s kingdom.

Isaiah 59:5

You hatch evil, like eggs from a poisonous snake. Anyone who eats the eggs will die. And if you break one of them open, a poisonous snake will come out. Your lies are like spider webs.

Genesis 3:15

I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your children and her children will be enemies. You will bite her child’s foot, but he will crush your head.”

Hebrews 6:18

These two things cannot change: God cannot lie when he says something, and he cannot lie when he makes an oath. So these two things are a great help to us who have come to God for safety. They encourage us to hold on to the hope that is ours.

Matthew 15:12

Then the followers came to Jesus and asked, “Do you know that the Pharisees are upset about what you said?”

Proverbs 28:4

Those who refuse to obey the law promote evil. Those who obey the law oppose evil.

Matthew 16:1

The Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus. They wanted to test him. So they asked him to show them a miracle as a sign from God.