King James Version (KJV)
Matthew 23:30
“‹And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.›”
Verse in context — Matthew 23
28
‹Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.›
29
‹Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,›
30
‹And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.›
31
‹Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.›
32
‹Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.›
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