Matthew 23:30

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 36:15 : 15 And Jehovah, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling-place:
  • Jer 2:30 : 30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
  • Matt 21:35-36 : 35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them in like manner.
  • Matt 23:34-35 : 34 Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: 35 that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar.

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  • Matt 23:31-32
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    31Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.

    32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

  • Matt 23:28-29
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    76%

    28Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

    29Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous,

  • Luke 11:47-51
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    47Woe unto you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

    48So ye are witnesses and consent unto the works of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build [their tombs] .

    49Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send unto them prophets and apostles; and [some] of them they shall kill and persecute;

    50that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

    51from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary: yea, I say unto you, it shall be required of this generation.

  • Acts 7:52
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    52Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;

  • Lam 5:7
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    7Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

  • Matt 27:4
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    4saying, I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? see thou [to it] .

  • Lam 4:13
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    13[ It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

  • Dan 9:6
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    6neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, that spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

  • Deut 21:7
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    7and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

  • Matt 27:25
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    25And all the people answered and said, His blood [be] on us, and on our children.

  • John 18:30
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    30They answered and said unto him, If this man were not an evildoer, we should not have delivered him up unto thee.

  • Matt 23:34-37
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    34Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:

    35that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar.

    36Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

    37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

  • Luke 20:6
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    6But if we shall say, From men; all the people will stone us: for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.

  • Josh 22:28
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    28Therefore said we, It shall be, when they so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say, Behold the pattern of the altar of Jehovah, which our fathers made, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.

  • Acts 13:27
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    27For they that dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled [them] by condemning [him] .

  • Matt 12:7
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    7But if ye had known what this meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

  • Luke 23:30-31
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    30Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.

    31For if they do these things in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry?

  • Neh 9:34
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    34neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies wherewith thou didst testify against them.

  • 1 Thess 2:15
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    15who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men;

  • Dan 9:10
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    10neither have we obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

  • Acts 5:28
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    28saying, We strictly charged you not to teach in this name: and behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.

  • Acts 13:40
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    40Beware therefore, lest that come upon [you] which is spoken in the prophets:

  • Josh 22:23-24
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    67%

    23that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Jehovah; or if to offer thereon burnt-offering or meal-offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace-offerings thereon, let Jehovah himself require it;

    24and if we have not [rather] out of carefulness done this, [and] of purpose, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with Jehovah, the God of Israel?

  • Jer 23:22
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    22But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

  • Luke 6:23
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    23Rejoice in that day, and leap [for joy] : for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for in the same manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

  • Matt 15:7
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    7Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

  • Mark 11:32
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    32But should we say, From men--they feared the people: for all verily held John to be a prophet.

  • 2 Chr 29:6
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    6For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Jehovah, and turned their backs.

  • Zech 1:4-5
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    4Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith Jehovah.

    5Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

  • Jer 14:20
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    20We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.

  • Luke 6:26
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    26Woe [unto you], when all men shall speak well of you! for in the same manner did their fathers to the false prophets.

  • Acts 3:24
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    24Yea and all the prophets from Samuel and them that followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.

  • 2 Chr 30:7
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    7And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

  • Ps 106:6
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    6We have sinned with our fathers, We have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

  • Josh 2:20
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    20But if thou utter this our business, then we shall be guiltless of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.

  • Matt 11:17
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    17and say, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance; we wailed, and ye did not mourn.

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    41Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye would have no sin: but now ye say, We see: your sin remaineth.

  • Isa 30:10
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    10that say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits,