Matthew 23:30

Geneva Bible (1560)

And say, If we had bene in the dayes of our fathers, we would not haue bene partners with them in the blood of the Prophets.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 36:15 : 15 Therefore the Lorde God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising earely and sending: for he had compassion on his people, and on his habitation.
  • Jer 2:30 : 30 I haue smitten your children in vaine, they receiued no correction: your owne sworde hath deuoured your Prophets like a destroying lyon.
  • Matt 21:35-36 : 35 And ye husbandmen tooke his seruants and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. 36 Againe hee sent other seruants, moe then the first: and they did the like vnto them.
  • Matt 23:34-35 : 34 Wherefore beholde, I send vnto you Prophets, and wise men, and Scribes, and of them ye shall kill and crucifie: and of them shall ye scourge in your Synagogues, and persecute from citie to citie, 35 That vpon you may come all the righteous blood that was shed vpon the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous, vnto the blood of Zacharias the sonne of Barachias, whome ye slewe betweene the Temple and the altar.

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  • Matt 23:31-32
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    82%

    31So then ye be witnesses vnto your selues, that ye are the children of them that murthered the Prophets.

    32Fulfill ye also ye measure of your fathers.

  • Matt 23:28-29
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    76%

    28So are ye also: for outwarde ye appeare righteous vnto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisie and iniquitie.

    29Wo be vnto you, Scribes & Pharises, hypocrites: for ye build the tombes of the Prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

  • Luke 11:47-51
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    47Wo be to you: for ye builde the sepulchres of the Prophetes, and your fathers killed them.

    48Truely ye beare witnesse, and allowe the deedes of your fathers: for they killed them, and yee build their sepulchres.

    49Therefore said the wisedome of God, I wil sende them Prophets and Apostles, and of them they shall slaie, and persecute away,

    50That the blood of all the Prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation,

    51From the blood of Abel vnto the blood of Zacharias, which was slaine betweene the altar and the Temple: verely I say vnto you, it shall be required of this generation.

  • Acts 7:52
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    52Which of the Prophets haue not your fathers persecuted? & they haue slaine them, which shewed before of the comming of that Iust, of whome ye are now the betrayers and murtherers,

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

  • Matt 27:4
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    4Saying, I haue sinned, betraying the innocent bloud. But they sayde, What is that to vs? see thou to it.

  • Lam 4:13
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    13For the sinnes of her Prophets, and the iniquities of her Priests, that haue shed the blood of the iust in the middes of her.

  • Dan 9:6
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    6For we would not obey thy seruants the Prophets, which spake in thy Name to our Kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

  • Deut 21:7
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    7And shal testifie, and say, Our handes haue not shed this blood, neither haue our eies seene it.

  • Matt 27:25
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    25Then answered all the people, and saide, His bloud be on vs, and on our children.

  • John 18:30
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    30They answered, and saide vnto him, If hee were not an euill doer, we woulde not haue deliuered him vnto thee.

  • Matt 23:34-37
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    34Wherefore beholde, I send vnto you Prophets, and wise men, and Scribes, and of them ye shall kill and crucifie: and of them shall ye scourge in your Synagogues, and persecute from citie to citie,

    35That vpon you may come all the righteous blood that was shed vpon the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous, vnto the blood of Zacharias the sonne of Barachias, whome ye slewe betweene the Temple and the altar.

    36Verely I say vnto you, all these things shall come vpon this generation.

    37Hierusalem, Hierusalem, which killest the Prophets, and stonest them which are sent to thee, how often would I haue gathered thy children together, as the henne gathereth her chickins vnder her wings, and ye would not!

  • Luke 20:6
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    6But if we shall say, Of men, all the people will stone vs: for they be perswaded that Iohn was a Prophet.

  • Josh 22:28
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    28Therefore said we, If so be that they should so say to vs or to our generations in time to come, then will we answere, Beholde the facion of the altar of the Lorde, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering nor for sacrifice, but it is a witnesse betweene vs and you.

  • Acts 13:27
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    27For the inhabitants of Hierusalem, and their rulers, because they knewe him not, nor yet the woordes of the Prophets, which are read euery Sabbath day, they haue fulfilled them in condemning him.

  • Matt 12:7
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    7Wherefore if ye knewe what this is, I will haue mercie, and not sacrifice, ye would not haue condemned the innocents.

  • Luke 23:30-31
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    30Then shall they begin to say to the mountaines, Fall on vs: and to the hilles, Couer vs.

    31For if they doe these things to a greene tree, what shalbe done to the drie?

  • Neh 9:34
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    34And our kings and our princes, our Priests and our fathers haue not done thy Lawe, nor regarded thy commandements nor thy protestations, wherewith thou hast protested among them.

  • 1 Thess 2:15
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    15Who both killed the Lord Iesus & their owne Prophets, & haue persecuted vs away, and God they please not, and are contrary to all men,

  • Dan 9:10
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    10For we haue not obeyed the voyce of the Lord our God, to walke in his lawes, which he had laide before vs by the ministerie of his seruants the Prophets.

  • Acts 5:28
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    28Saying, Did not we straightly commaund you, that ye should not teach in this Name? & behold, ye haue filled Hierusale with your doctrine, and ye would bring this mans blood vpon vs.

  • Acts 13:40
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    40Beware therefore lest that come vpon you, which is spoken of in the Prophets,

  • Josh 22:23-24
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    23If we haue built vs an altar to returne away from the Lord, either to offer thereon burnt offering, or meate offering, or to offer peace offerings thereon, let the Lord himselfe require it:

    24And if we haue not rather done it for feare of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might say vnto our children, What haue ye to doe with the Lord God of Israel?

  • Jer 23:22
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    22But if they had stande in my counsell, and had declared my words to my people, then they should haue turned them from their euill way, & from the wickednesse of their inuentions.

  • Luke 6:23
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    23Reioyce ye in that day, and be glad: for beholde, your reward is great in heauen: for after this maner their fathers did to the Prophets.

  • Matt 15:7
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    7O hypocrites, Esaias prophecied well of you, saying,

  • Mark 11:32
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    32But if we say, Of men, we feare the people: for all men counted Iohn, that he was a Prophet in deede.

  • 2 Chr 29:6
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    6For our fathers haue trespassed, and done euill in the eyes of the Lord our God, and haue forsaken him, & turned away their faces from the Tabernacle of the Lord, and turned their backes.

  • Zech 1:4-5
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    4Be ye not as your fathers, vnto whome the former prophets haue cried, saying, Thus sayth the Lord of hostes, Turne you nowe from your euill wayes, and from your wicked workes: but they would not heare, nor hearken vnto me, saith the Lorde.

    5your fathers, where are they? and doe the Prophets liue for euer?

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    20We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickednesse and the iniquitie of our fathers: for we haue sinned against thee.

  • Luke 6:26
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    26Wo be to you when all men speake well of you: for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

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    20And if thou vtter this our matter, we will be quite of thine othe, which thou hast made vs sweare.

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    10Which say vnto the Seers, See not: and to the Prophets, Prophecie not vnto vs right things: but speake flattering things vnto vs: prophecie errours.