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Matthew 23:31 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets. "

Matthew 23:31

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29 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the tombs of the righteous,

30 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.’

31 Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

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

33 You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

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Luke 11:48

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"So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs."

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Acts 7:52

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Acts 3:25

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"You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’"

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Sirach 36:15

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"Give testimony to those who were your creatures in the beginning, and fulfill the prophecies that have been spoken in your name."

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Amos 2:11

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"I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Isn’t this true, you children of Israel?” says the LORD."

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John 8:53

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"Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”"

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Matthew 23:1

"Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,"

Matthew 23:2

"saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat."

Matthew 23:3

"All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do."

Matthew 23:4

"For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them."

Matthew 23:5

"But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the fringes of their garments,"

Matthew 23:6

"and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,"

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