New American Standard Bible 2020

Matthew 23:30-34

30and you say, ‘If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ 31So you testify against yourselves, that you 1are 2sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 3Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers. 33You snakes, 4you 5offspring of vipers, how 6will you escape the 7sentence of 8 9hell?

34“10Therefore, behold, 11I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will 12flog in your synagogues, and 13persecute from city to city,

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Notes

1. Matthew 23:31 Matt 23:34, 37; Acts 7:51f ↩
2. Matthew 23:31 Or descendants ↩
3. Matthew 23:32 I.e., finish what they started ↩
4. Matthew 23:33 Matt 3:7; Luke 3:7 ↩
5. Matthew 23:33 Or brood ↩
6. Matthew 23:33 Lit are you to escape ↩
7. Matthew 23:33 Or judgment ↩
8. Matthew 23:33 Gr Gehenna ↩
9. Matthew 23:33 Matt 5:22 ↩
10. Matthew 23:34 Matt 23:34-36; Luke 11:49-51 ↩
11. Matthew 23:34 2 Chr 36:15, 16 ↩
12. Matthew 23:34 Matt 10:17 ↩
13. Matthew 23:34 Matt 10:23 ↩

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