Matthew 3:7

Weymouth NT

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he exclaimed, `O vipers' brood, who has warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Cross References

Matthew 12:24

The Pharisees heard it and said, »This man only expels demons by the power of Baal-zebul, the Prince of demons.«

Matthew 12:34

O vipers' brood, how can you speak what is good when you are evil? For it is from the overflow of the heart that the mouth speaks.

Matthew 15:12

Then His disciples came and said to Him, »Do you know that the Pharisees were greatly shocked when they heard those words?«

Matthew 16:1

Here the Pharisees and Sadducees came to Him; and, to make trial of Him, they asked Him to show them a sign in the sky.

Matthew 16:6

and when Jesus said to them, »See to it: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees,«

Matthew 22:15

Then the Pharisees went and consulted together how they might entrap Him in His conversation.

Matthew 22:23

On the same day a party of Sadducees came to Him, contending that there is no resurrection. And they put this case to Him.

Matthew 22:34

Now the Pharisees came up when they heard that He had silenced the Sadducees,

Matthew 23:33

O serpents, O vipers' brood, how are you to escape condemnation to Gehenna?

Matthew 5:20

For I assure you that unless your righteousness greatly surpasses that of the Scribes and the Pharisees, you will certainly not find entrance into the Kingdom of the Heavens.

Mark 12:13

Their next step was to send to Him some of the Pharisees and of Herod's partisans to entrap Him in conversation.

Mark 12:18

Then came to Him a party of Sadducees, a sect which denies that there is any Resurrection; and they proceeded to question Him.

Mark 8:15

and when He admonished them, »See to it, be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod,«

Luke 16:14

To all this the Pharisees listened, bitterly jeering at Him; for they were lovers of money.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee, standing erect, prayed as follows by himself: »`O God, I thank Thee that I am not like other people–I am not a thief nor a cheat nor an adulterer, nor do I even resemble this tax-gatherer.

Luke 7:30

But the Pharisees and expounders of the Law have frustrated God's purpose as to their own lives, by refusing to be baptized.

John 1:24

They were Pharisees who had been sent.

John 8:44

The father whose sons you are is the Devil; and you desire to do what gives him pleasure. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth–for there is no truth in him. Whenever he utters his lie, he utters it out of his own store; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

John 9:40

These words were heard by those of the Pharisees who were present, and they asked Him, »Are we also blind?«

Acts 15:5

But certain men who had belonged to the sect of the Pharisees but were now believers, stood up in the assembly, and said, »Yes, Gentile believers ought to be circumcised and be ordered to keep the Law of Moses.«

Acts 20:31

Therefore be on the alert; and remember that, night and day, for three years, I never ceased admonishing every one, even with tears.

Acts 26:5

For they all know me of old –if they would but testify to the fact– how, being an adherent of the strictest sect of our religion, my life was that of a Pharisee.

Acts 5:17

This roused the High Priest. He and all his party –the sect of the Sadducees– were filled with angry jealousy

Romans 1:18

For God's anger is being revealed from Heaven against all impiety and against the iniquity of men who through iniquity suppress the truth. God is angry:

Romans 5:9

If therefore we have now been pronounced free from guilt through His blood, much more shall we be delivered from God's anger through Him.

1 Thessalonians 1:10

and to await the return from Heaven of His Son, whom He raised from among the dead–even Jesus, our Deliverer from God's coming anger.

Hebrews 11:7

Through faith Noah, being divinely taught about things as yet unseen, reverently gave heed and built an ark for the safety of his family, and by this act he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which depends on faith.

Hebrews 6:18

He added an oath, in order that, through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for Him to prove false, we may possess mighty encouragement–we who, for safety, have hastened to lay hold of the hope set before us.

1 John 3:10

By this we can distinguish God's children and the Devil's children: no one who fails to act righteously is a child of God, nor he who does not love his brother man.