Matthew 23:31 KJV — MannaFest

Matthew 23:31

Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

KJV

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ASV

Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.

WEB

So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

YLT

So that ye testify to yourselves, that ye are sons of them who did murder the prophets;

DBT

So that ye bear witness of yourselves that ye are sons of those who slew the prophets:

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Matthew — The Gospel of the promised King. Five discourses punctuate the narrative; roughly sixty-five Old Testament citations bind the story to the prophets.

Author: Matthew (Levi), a former tax collector called by Jesus
Date: c. AD 50–60

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Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
Acts 7:51–52
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
1 Thessalonians 2:15
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
Romans 9:22
What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
Matthew 5:12
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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