Matthew 23:30

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 36:15 : 15 And Jehovah, God of their fathers, sendeth unto them by the hand of His messengers -- rising early and sending -- for He hath had pity on His people, and on His habitation,
  • Jer 2:30 : 30 In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your prophets, As a destroying lion.
  • Matt 21:35-36 : 35 and the husbandmen having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned. 36 `Again he sent other servants more than the first, and they did to them in the same manner.
  • Matt 23:34-35 : 34 `Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city; 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood being poured out on the earth from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar:

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  • Matt 23:31-32
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    31So that ye testify to yourselves, that ye are sons of them who did murder the prophets;

    32and ye -- ye fill up the measure of your fathers.

  • Matt 23:28-29
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    28so also ye outwardly indeed do appear to men righteous, and within ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

    29`Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous,

  • Luke 11:47-51
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    47`Wo to you, because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

    48Then do ye testify, and are well pleased with the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye do build their tombs;

    49because of this also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets, and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute,

    50that the blood of all the prophets, that is being poured forth from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation;

    51from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yes, I say to you, It shall be required from this generation.

  • Acts 7:52
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    52which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,

  • Lam 5:7
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    7Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne.

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    4`I did sin, having delivered up innocent blood;' and they said, `What -- to us? thou shalt see!'

  • Lam 4:13
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    13Because of the sins of her prophets, The iniquities of her priests, Who are shedding in her midst the blood of the righteous,

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    6and we have not hearkened unto Thy servants, the prophets, who have spoken in Thy name unto our kings, our heads, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

  • Deut 21:7
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    7and they have answered and said, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen --

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    25and all the people answering said, `His blood `is' upon us, and upon our children!'

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    30they answered and said to him, `If he were not an evil doer, we had not delivered him to thee.'

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    34`Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city;

    35that on you may come all the righteous blood being poured out on the earth from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar:

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

    37`Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will.

  • Luke 20:6
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  • Josh 22:28
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    28`And we say, And it hath been, when they say `so' unto us, and unto our generations hereafter, that we have said, See the pattern of the altar of Jehovah, which our fathers made -- not for burnt-offering nor for sacrifice -- but a witness it `is' between us and you.

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  • Luke 23:30-31
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    23`we are' building for ourselves an altar to turn back from after Jehovah, and if to cause to go up on it burnt-offering and present, and if to make on it peace-offerings -- Jehovah Himself doth require `it'.

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  • Jer 23:22
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    22But -- if they stood in My counsel, Then they cause My people to hear My words, And they turn them back from their evil way, And from the evil of their doings.

  • Luke 6:23
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  • Matt 15:7
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