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Matthew 23:31
Wherefore ye are witnesses to yourselves, that ye are the children of them who killed the prophets.
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Matthew 23:31 in other translations
Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.
Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.
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In context
28 Thus ye also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous,
30 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.
31 Wherefore ye are witnesses to yourselves, that ye are the children of them who killed the prophets.
32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
33 [Ye] serpents, [ye] generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
34 Wherefore behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and [some] of them ye will kill and crucify, and [some] of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute [them] from city to city:
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