Matthew 23:31

New King James Version

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

Cross References

Luke 19:22

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

Joshua 24:22

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

Psalm 64:8

So He will make them stumble over their own tongue; All who see them shall flee away.

Lamentations 4:13

Because of the sins of her prophets And the iniquities of her priests, Who shed in her midst The blood of the just.

Matthew 23:30

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

Matthew 23:32

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

Matthew 23:34

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

Matthew 23:37

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!