Matthew 23:31

New International Reader's Version

So you are witnesses against yourselves. You admit that you are the children of those who murdered the prophets.

Cross References

Psalm 64:8

He will turn their own words against them. He will destroy them. All those who see them will shake their heads and look down on them.

Lamentations 4:13

It happened because Jerusalem’s prophets had sinned. Her priests had done evil things. All of them spilled the blood of those who did what was right.

Matthew 23:30

And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of those who lived before us, we wouldn’t have done what they did. We wouldn’t have helped to kill the prophets.’

Matthew 23:32

So go ahead and finish the sins that those who lived before you started!

Matthew 23:34

So I am sending you prophets, wise people, and teachers. You will kill some of them. You will nail some to a cross. Others you will whip in your synagogues. You will chase them from town to town.

Matthew 23:37

“Jerusalem! Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and throw stones in order to kill those who are sent to you. Many times I have wanted to gather your people together. I have wanted to be like a hen who gathers her chicks under her wings. And you would not let me!

Luke 19:22

“His master replied, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you evil slave! So you knew that I am a hard man? You knew that I take out what I did not put in? You knew that I harvest what I did not plant?

Joshua 24:22

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