Matthew 23:31

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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  • Acts 7:51-52 : 51 Ye stiffenecked and of vncircumcised heartes and eares, ye haue alwayes resisted the holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which 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,
  • 1 Thess 2:15-16 : 15 Who both killed the Lord Iesus & their owne Prophets, & haue persecuted vs away, and God they please not, and are contrary to all men, 16 And forbid vs to preach vnto the Gentiles, that they might be saued, to fulfill their sinnes alwayes: for the wrath of God is come on them, to the vtmost.
  • Josh 24:22 : 22 And Ioshua saide vnto the people, Yee are witnesses against your selues, that yee haue chosen you the Lord, to serue him: and they sayd, We are witnesses.
  • Job 15:5-6 : 5 For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye tongue of the crafty. 6 Thine owne mouth condemneth thee, and not I, and thy lippes testifie against thee.
  • Ps 64:8 : 8 They shall cause their owne tongue to fall vpon them: and whosoeuer shall see them, shall flee away.
  • Luke 19:22 : 22 Then he sayde vnto him, Of thine owne mouth will I iudge thee, O euill seruant. Thou knewest that I am a straight man, taking vp that I layd not downe, & reaping that I did not sowe.

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  • Matt 23:28-30
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    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,

    30And 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.

  • 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.

  • Matt 23:32-38
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    32Fulfill ye also ye measure of your fathers.

    33O serpents, the generation of vipers, howe should ye escape the damnation of hell!

    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!

    38Beholde, your habitation shalbe left vnto you desolate,

  • Acts 7:51-52
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    51Ye stiffenecked and of vncircumcised heartes and eares, ye haue alwayes resisted the holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you.

    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,

  • Luke 24:48
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    48Nowe ye are witnesses of these things.

  • Matt 10:21
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    21And the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the sonne, and the children shal rise against their parents, and shall cause them to die.

  • Acts 3:15
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    15And killed the Lorde of life, whome God hath raised fro the dead, whereof we are witnesses.

  • 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,

  • Mark 13:12
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    12Yea, and the brother shall deliuer the brother to death, and the father the sonne, and the children shall rise against their parents, and shall cause them to die.

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

  • Luke 21:16
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    16Yea, ye shalbe betrayed also of your parents, and of your brethren, and kinsmen, and friendes, and some of you shall they put to death.

  • 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.

  • Luke 13:34
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    34O Hierusalem, Hierusalem, which killest the Prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee, howe often would I haue gathered thy children together, as the henne gathereth her brood vnder her wings, and ye would not!

  • John 8:37-41
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    37I know that ye are Abrahams seede, but yee seeke to kill mee, because my worde hath no place in you.

    38I speake that which I haue seene with my Father: and ye doe that which ye haue seene with your father.

    39They answered, and saide vnto him, Abraham is our father. Iesus said vnto them, If ye were Abrahams children, ye woulde doe the workes of Abraham.

    40But nowe ye goe about to kill mee, a man that haue told you the trueth, which I haue heard of God: this did not Abraham.

    41Ye do the workes of your father. Then said they to him, We are not borne of fornication: we haue one Father, which is God.

  • Luke 22:71
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    71Then sayd they, What neede we any further witnes? for we our selues haue heard it of his owne mouth.

  • Acts 3:24-25
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    24Also all the Prophets from Samuel, and thencefoorth as many as haue spoken, haue likewise foretolde of these dayes.

    25Ye are the children of the Prophets, and of the couenant, which God hath made vnto our fathers, saying to Abraham, Euen in thy seede shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

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

  • Jer 2:30
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    30I haue smitten your children in vaine, they receiued no correction: your owne sworde hath deuoured your Prophets like a destroying lyon.

  • Jas 5:6
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    6Ye haue condemned and haue killed the iust, and he hath not resisted you.

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

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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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    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.

  • Luke 3:8
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    13And this shall turne to you, for a testimoniall.

  • Matt 21:38-39
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    38But when the husbandmen saw the sonne, they saide among themselues, This is the heire: come, let vs kil him, & let vs take his inheritance.

    39So they tooke him, and cast him out of the vineyarde, and slewe him.

  • 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.

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    21Ye haue heard that it was sayd vnto them of the olde time, Thou shalt not kill: for whosoeuer killeth shalbe culpable of iudgement.

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    6Thine owne mouth condemneth thee, and not I, and thy lippes testifie against thee.

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    12Reioyce and be glad, for great is your reward in heauen: for so persecuted they the Prophets which were before you.

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