Matthew 23:31

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By saying this you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 7:51-52 : 51 “You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did! 52 Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold long ago the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become!
  • 1 Thess 2:15-16 : 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us severely. They are displeasing to God and are opposed to all people, 16 because they hinder us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they constantly fill up their measure of sins, but wrath has come upon them completely.
  • Josh 24:22 : 22 Joshua said to the people,“Do you agree to be witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to worship the LORD?” They replied,“We are witnesses!”
  • Job 15:5-6 : 5 Your sin inspires your mouth; you choose the language of the crafty. 6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you.
  • Ps 64:8 : 8 Their slander will bring about their demise. All who see them will shudder,
  • Luke 19:22 : 22 The king said to him,‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, withdrawing what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow?

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    28In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

    29“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.

    30And you say,‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have participated with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

  • Luke 11:47-51
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    47Woe to you! You build the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors killed.

    48So you testify that you approve of the deeds of your ancestors, because they killed the prophets and you build their tombs!

    49For this reason also the wisdom of God said,‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’

    50so that this generation may be held accountable for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world,

    51from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against this generation.

  • Matt 23:32-38
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    32Fill up then the measure of your ancestors!

    33You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?

    34“For this reason I am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town,

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

    36I tell you the truth, this generation will be held responsible for all these things!

    37Judgment on Israel“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!

    38Look, your house is left to you desolate!

  • Acts 7:51-52
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    51“You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!

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    48You are witnesses of these things.

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    21“Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

  • Acts 3:15
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    15You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!

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    15who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us severely. They are displeasing to God and are opposed to all people,

  • Mark 13:12
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    12Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

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    40Watch out, then, that what is spoken about by the prophets does not happen to you:

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    16You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will have some of you put to death.

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    23Rejoice in that day, and jump for joy, because your reward is great in heaven. For their ancestors did the same things to the prophets.

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    34O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!

  • John 8:37-41
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    37I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.

    38I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!”

    39They answered him,“Abraham is our father!” Jesus replied,“If you are Abraham’s children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.

    40But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

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    71Then they said,“Why do we need further testimony? We have heard it ourselves from his own lips!”

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    24And all the prophets, from Samuel and those who followed him, have spoken about and announced these days.

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    6You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, although he does not resist you.

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    8Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance, and don’t begin to say to yourselves,‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

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    13This will be a time for you to serve as witnesses.

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    38But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves,‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and get his inheritance!’

    39So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

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    27For the people who live in Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize him, and they fulfilled the sayings of the prophets that are read every Sabbath by condemning him.

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    21Prepare to execute his sons for the sins their ancestors have committed. They must not rise up and take possession of the earth, or fill the surface of the world with cities.”

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    12Rejoice and be glad, because your reward is great in heaven, for they persecuted the prophets before you in the same way.

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    15But you should take careful note of this: If you put me to death, you will bring on yourselves and this city and those who live in it the guilt of murdering an innocent man. For the LORD has sent me to speak all this where you can hear it. That is the truth!”