Matthew 23:31
New International Version
So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

New Living Translation
“But in saying that, you testify against yourselves that you are indeed the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

English Standard Version
Thus you witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

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

Berean Literal Bible
Thus you bear witness to yourselves that you are sons of those having murdered the prophets.

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

New King James Version
“Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

New American Standard Bible
So you testify against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

NASB 1995
“So you testify against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

NASB 1977
“Consequently you bear witness against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Legacy Standard Bible
So you bear witness against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Amplified Bible
So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

Christian Standard Bible
So you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You, therefore, testify against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Therefore you testify against yourselves that you are the children of those who murdered The Prophets.

Contemporary English Version
But you prove you really are the relatives of the ones who killed the prophets.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

Good News Translation
So you actually admit that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets!

International Standard Version
Therefore, you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

Literal Standard Version
So that you testify to yourselves that you are sons of them who murdered the prophets;

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

New American Bible
Thus you bear witness against yourselves that you are the children of those who murdered the prophets;

NET Bible
By saying this you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

New Revised Standard Version
Thus you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

New Heart English Bible
Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

Webster's Bible Translation
Wherefore ye are witnesses to yourselves, that ye are the children of them who killed the prophets.

Weymouth New Testament
"So that you bear witness against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the Prophets.

World English Bible
Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

Young's Literal Translation
So that ye testify to yourselves, that ye are sons of them who did murder the prophets;

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Context
Woes to Scribes and Pharisees
30And you say, ‘If we had lived 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 are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.…

Cross References
Lamentations 4:13
But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

Matthew 23:30
And you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'

Matthew 23:32
Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.

Matthew 23:34
Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.

Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Acts 7:51
You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers--


Treasury of Scripture

Why you be witnesses to yourselves, that you are the children of them which killed the prophets.

witnesses.

Joshua 24:22
And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.

Job 15:5,6
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty…

Psalm 64:8
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

that.

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 2:15,16
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: …

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Matthew 23
1. Jesus admonishes the people to follow good doctrine, not bad examples
5. His disciples must beware of their ambition.
13. He denounces eight woes against their hypocrisy and blindness,
34. and prophesies of the destruction of Jerusalem.














(31) Ye be witnesses unto yourselves.--Their words were true in another sense than that in which they had spoken them. They were reproducing in their deeds the very lineaments of those fathers whom they condemned.

Verse 31. - Ye be witnesses unto yourselves. By busying yourselves about adorning the tombs of the prophets slain by your ancestors, you show your descent and the spirit which animates you. Ye are the children; ye are sons. They were true sons of their fathers, inheriting their murderous instincts, following their steps. Like father, like son. They inherited and put in practice the same false principles which led their ancestors astray.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
So
ὥστε (hōste)
Conjunction
Strong's 5620: So that, therefore, so then, so as to. From hos and te; so too, i.e. Thus therefore.

you testify
μαρτυρεῖτε (martyreite)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 3140: To witness, bear witness, give evidence, testify, give a good report. From martus; to be a witness, i.e. Testify.

against yourselves
ἑαυτοῖς (heautois)
Reflexive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1438: Himself, herself, itself.

that
ὅτι (hoti)
Conjunction
Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.

you are
ἐστε (este)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

[the] sons
υἱοί (huioi)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 5207: A son, descendent. Apparently a primary word; a 'son', used very widely of immediate, remote or figuratively, kinship.

of those
τῶν (tōn)
Article - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

who murdered
φονευσάντων (phoneusantōn)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 5407: To murder, kill. From phoneus; to be a murderer.

the
τοὺς (tous)
Article - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

prophets.
προφήτας (prophētas)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 4396: From a compound of pro and phemi; a foreteller; by analogy, an inspired speaker; by extension, a poet.


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