Matthew 23:29

The Passion Translation

“Great sorrow awaits you religious scholars and Pharisees—frauds and imposters! You build memorials for the prophets your ancestors killed and decorate the monuments of the godly people your ancestors murdered.

Cross References

Acts 2:29

“My fellow Jews, I can tell you there is no doubt that our noted patriarch has both died and been buried in his tomb, which remains to this day. So you can see that he was not referring to himself with those words.

Matthew 23:27

“Great sorrow awaits you religious scholars and Pharisees—frauds and imposters! You are nothing more than tombs painted over with white paint—tombs that look shining and beautiful on the outside but filled with rotting corpses on the inside.

Matthew 23:28

Outwardly you masquerade as righteous people, but inside your hearts you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Matthew 23:30

Then you boast, ‘If we had lived back then, we would not have joined them in killing the prophets.’