Matthew 23:30

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 2 Chr 36:15 : 15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent warnings to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending them, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.
  • Jer 2:30 : 30 In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
  • Matt 21:35-36 : 35 And the vine dressers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first, and they did likewise to them.
  • Matt 23:34-35 : 34 Therefore, indeed, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

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  • Matt 23:31-32
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    31Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

    32Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' guilt.

  • Matt 23:28-29
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    28Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

    29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,

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

    48Truly you bear witness that you approve the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs.

    49Therefore the wisdom of God also said, I will send 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 to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the temple: truly I say to you, It shall be required of this generation.

  • Acts 7:52
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    52Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they have killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers,

  • Lam 5:7
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    7Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we have borne their iniquities.

  • Matt 27:4
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    4Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? See to that yourself.

  • Lam 4:13
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    13For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in her midst,

  • Dan 9:6
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    6Neither have we listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your 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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    25Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us and on our children.

  • John 18:30
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    30They answered and said to him, If he were not a wrongdoer, we would not have delivered him to you.

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

    35that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

    36Truly I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

    37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

  • Luke 20:6
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    6But if we 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 we said that it shall be, when they should say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say, Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings nor for sacrifices, but it is a witness between us and you.

  • Acts 13:27
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    27For those who dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, have fulfilled them in condemning him.

  • Matt 12:7
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    7But if you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the innocent.

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

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

  • Neh 9:34
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    34Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our forefathers kept Your law, nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies, which You testified against them.

  • 1 Thess 2:15
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    15Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God, and are contrary to all men:

  • Dan 9:10
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    10Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD 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, Did we not strictly command you that you should not teach in this name? And look, you 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 of in the prophets;

  • Josh 22:23-24
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    23That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer on it burnt offering or grain offering, or if to offer peace offerings on it, let the LORD Himself require it;

    24And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, What have you to do with the LORD God of Israel?

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

  • 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 like manner did their fathers to the prophets.

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

  • Mark 11:32
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    32But if we say, From men; they feared the people: for all men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.

  • 2 Chr 29:6
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    6For our fathers have trespassed, and done evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken Him, and turned away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs.

  • Zech 1:4-5
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    4Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds. But they did not hear nor listen to Me, says the LORD.

    5Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

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

  • Luke 6:26
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    26Woe to you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

  • Acts 3:24
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    24Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.

  • 2 Chr 30:7
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    7And do not be like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as you see.

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

  • Josh 2:20
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    20And if you reveal this our business, then we will be released from your oath which you have made us swear.

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    17And saying, We have played the flute for you, and you have not danced; we have mourned for you, and you have not lamented.

  • John 9:41
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    41Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you would have no sin: but now you say, We see; therefore your sin remains.

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    10Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits: