Matthew 23:30

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 2 Chr 36:15 : 15 Yahweh, 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 "I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
  • Matt 21:35-36 : 35 The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way.
  • Matt 23:34-35 : 34 Therefore, behold, 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 Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

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

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    47 Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

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

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