Matthew 3:7

New International Reader's Version

John saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing. He said to them, “You are like a nest of poisonous snakes! Who warned you to escape the coming of God’s anger?

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

I will make you and the woman hate each other. Your children and her children will be enemies. Her son will crush your head. And you will bite his heel.”

Proverbs 28:4

Those who turn away from instruction praise sinners. But those who learn from it oppose them.

Isaiah 59:5

The plans they make are like the eggs of poisonous snakes. Anyone who eats those eggs will die. When one of them is broken, a snake comes out.

Jeremiah 51:6

“People of Judah, run away from Babylon! Run for your lives! Do not be destroyed because of the sins of its people. It is time for me to pay them back. I will punish them for what they have done.

Jeremiah 6:10

Who can I speak to? Who can I warn? Who will even listen to me? Their ears are closed so they can’t hear. The Lord’s message displeases them. They don’t take any delight in it.

Matthew 12:24

The Pharisees heard this. So they said, “This fellow drives out demons by the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons.”

Matthew 12:34

You nest of poisonous snakes! How can you who are evil say anything good? Your mouths say everything that is in your hearts.

Matthew 15:12

Then the disciples came to him. They asked, “Do you know that the Pharisees were angry when they heard this?”

Matthew 16:1

The Pharisees and Sadducees came to test Jesus. They asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

Matthew 16:6

“Be careful,” Jesus said to them. “Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Matthew 22:15

The Pharisees went out. They made plans to trap Jesus with his own words.

Matthew 22:23

That same day the Sadducees came to Jesus with a question. They do not believe that people rise from the dead.

Matthew 22:34

The Pharisees heard that the Sadducees weren’t able to answer Jesus. So the Pharisees got together.

Matthew 23:33

“You nest of poisonous snakes! How will you escape from being sentenced to hell?

Matthew 5:20

Here is what I tell you. You must be more godly than the Pharisees and the teachers of the law. If you are not, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Mark 12:13

Later the religious leaders sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus. They wanted to trap him with his own words.

Mark 12:18

The Sadducees came to Jesus with a question. They do not believe that people rise from the dead.

Mark 8:15

“Be careful,” Jesus warned them. “Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees. And watch out for the yeast of Herod.”

Luke 16:14

The Pharisees loved money. They heard all that Jesus said and made fun of him.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed. ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people,’ he said. ‘I am not like robbers or those who do other evil things. I am not like those who commit adultery. I am not even like this tax collector.

Luke 7:30

But the Pharisees and the authorities on the law did not accept for themselves God’s purpose. So they had not been baptized by John.

John 1:24

The Pharisees who had been sent

John 8:44

You belong to your father, the devil. You want to obey your father’s wishes. From the beginning, the devil was a murderer. He has never obeyed the truth. There is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his natural language. He does this because he is a liar. He is the father of lies.

John 9:40

Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this. They asked, “What? Are we blind too?”

Acts 15:5

Some of the believers were Pharisees. They stood up and said, “The Gentiles must be circumcised. They must obey the law of Moses.”

Acts 20:31

So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning you. Night and day I warned each of you with tears.

Acts 26:5

They have known me for a long time. So if they wanted to, they could tell you how I have lived. I have lived by the rules of the Pharisees. Those rules are harder to obey than those of any other Jewish group.

Acts 5:17

The high priest and all his companions were Sadducees. They were very jealous of the apostles.

Romans 1:18

God shows his anger from heaven. It is against all the godless and evil things people do. They are so evil that they say no to the truth.

Romans 5:9

The blood of Christ has made us right with God. So we are even more sure that Jesus will save us from God’s anger.

1 Thessalonians 1:10

They tell about how you are waiting for his Son to come from heaven. God raised him from the dead. He is Jesus. He saves us from God’s anger, and his anger is sure to come.

Hebrews 11:7

Noah had faith. So he built an ark to save his family. He built it because of his great respect for God. God had warned him about things that could not yet be seen. Because of his faith Noah showed the world that it was guilty. Because of his faith he was considered right with God.

Hebrews 6:18

When God made his promise, he gave his word. He did this so we would have good reason not to give up. Instead, we have run to take hold of the hope set before us. This hope is set before us in God’s promise. So God made his promise and gave his word. These two things can’t change. He couldn’t lie about them.

1 John 3:10

Here is how you can tell the difference between God’s children and the devil’s children. Anyone who doesn’t do what is right isn’t God’s child. And anyone who doesn’t love their brother or sister isn’t God’s child either.