Verse 31
Matthew 23:31
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets.
Original Language Text
greek
ὥστε μαρτυρεῖτε ἑαυτοῖς ὅτι υἱοί ἐστε τῶν φονευσάντων τοὺς προφήτας.
English Translation
So you testify to yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.
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Chapter 23 Context
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Then Yashua (Jesus) spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,
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Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses.
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All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works...
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For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men's shoulders; but with a finger of...
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And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad, and enlar...
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And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the synagogues,
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And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi.
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But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master; and all you are brethren.
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And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven.
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Neither be ye called masters; for one is you master, Christ.
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He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant.
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And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalte...
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But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men...
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Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: because you devour the houses of widows, praying long...
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Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you go round about the sea and the land to mak...
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Woe to you blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but he that s...
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Ye foolish and blind; for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
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And whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is...
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Ye blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
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He therefore that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things that are upon it:
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And whosoever shall swear by temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth in it:
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And he that sweareth by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God (Elohim), and by him that sitteth ther...
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Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and hav...
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Blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.
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Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of t...
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Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside may be...
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Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwa...
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So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity...
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Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; that build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn t...
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And say: If we had been in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in th...
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Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophe...
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Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
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You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell?
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Therefore behold I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you will put to...
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That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel...
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Amen I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.
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Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how...
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Behold, you house shall be left to you, desolate.
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For I say to you, you shall not see me henceforth till you say: Blessed is he that cometh in the nam...
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