Matthew 23:31

Modern English Version

Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Cross References

Psalm 64:8

So He will bring ruin to them with their own tongues; all who see them will shake their heads.

Lamentations 4:13

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

Matthew 23:30

and say, ‘If we lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have partaken with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

Matthew 23:32

Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ guilt.

Matthew 23:34

Therefore I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city,

Matthew 23:37

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often I would have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not!

Luke 19:22

“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was an exacting man, collecting what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow.

Joshua 24:22

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