Matthew 3:7

New Century Version

Many of the Pharisees and Sadducees came to the place where John was baptizing people. When John saw them, he said, “You are snakes! Who warned you to run away from God’s coming punishment?

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your descendants and her descendants will be enemies. One of her descendants will crush your head, and you will bite his heel.”

Proverbs 28:4

Those who disobey what they have been taught praise the wicked, but those who obey what they have been taught are against them.

Isaiah 59:5

They hatch evil like eggs from poisonous snakes. If you eat one of those eggs, you will die, and if you break one open, a poisonous snake comes out. People tell lies as they would spin a spider’s web.

Jeremiah 51:6

“Run away from Babylon and save your lives! Don’t stay and be killed because of Babylon’s sins. It is time for the Lord to punish Babylon; he will give Babylon the punishment she deserves.

Jeremiah 6:10

To whom can I speak? Whom can I warn? Who will listen to me? The people of Israel have closed ears, so they cannot hear my warnings. They don’t like the word of the Lord; they don’t want to listen to it!

Matthew 12:24

When the Pharisees heard this, they said, “Jesus uses the power of Beelzebul, the ruler of demons, to force demons out of people.”

Matthew 12:34

You snakes! You are evil people, so how can you say anything good? The mouth speaks the things that are in the heart.

Matthew 15:12

Then his followers came to him and asked, “Do you know that the Pharisees are angry because of what you said?”

Matthew 16:1

The Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus, wanting to trick him. So they asked him to show them a miracle from God.

Matthew 16:6

Jesus said to them, “Be careful! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.”

Matthew 22:15

Then the Pharisees left that place and made plans to trap Jesus in saying something wrong.

Matthew 22:23

That same day some Sadducees came to Jesus and asked him a question. (Sadducees believed that people would not rise from the dead.)

Matthew 22:34

When the Pharisees learned that the Sadducees could not argue with Jesus’ answers to them, the Pharisees met together.

Matthew 23:33

“You are snakes! A family of poisonous snakes! How are you going to escape God’s judgment?

Matthew 5:20

I tell you that if you are no more obedient than the teachers of the law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Mark 12:13

Later, the Jewish leaders sent some Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to trap him in saying something wrong.

Mark 12:18

Then some Sadducees came to Jesus and asked him a question. (Sadducees believed that people would not rise from the dead.)

Mark 8:15

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

Luke 16:14

The Pharisees, who loved money, were listening to all these things and made fun of Jesus.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood alone and prayed, ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people who steal, cheat, or take part in adultery, or even like this tax collector.

Luke 7:30

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

John 1:24

Some Pharisees who had been sent asked John:

John 8:44

You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what he wants. He was a murderer from the beginning and was against the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he shows what he is really like, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 9:40

Some of the Pharisees who were nearby heard Jesus say this and asked, “Are you saying we are blind, too?”

Acts 15:5

But some of the believers who belonged to the Pharisee group came forward and said, “The non-Jewish believers must be circumcised. They must be told to obey the law of Moses.”

Acts 20:31

So be careful! Always remember that for three years, day and night, I never stopped warning each of you, and I often cried over you.

Acts 26:5

They 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 my tradition more carefully than any other group.

Acts 5:17

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

Romans 1:18

God’s anger is shown from heaven against all the evil and wrong things people do. By their own evil lives they hide the truth.

Romans 5:9

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

1 Thessalonians 1:10

And you wait for God’s Son, whom God raised from the dead, to come from heaven. He is Jesus, who saves us from God’s angry judgment that is sure to come.

Hebrews 11:7

It was by faith that Noah heard God’s warnings about things he could not yet see. He obeyed God and built a large boat to save his family. By his faith, Noah showed that the world was wrong, and he became one of those who are made right with God through faith.

Hebrews 6:18

These two things cannot change: God cannot lie when he makes a promise, and he cannot lie when he makes an oath. These things encourage us who came to God for safety. They give us strength to hold on to the hope we have been given.

1 John 3:10

So we can see who God’s children are and who the devil’s children are: Those who do not do what is right are not God’s children, and those who do not love their brothers and sisters are not God’s children.