King James Version (KJV)
Matthew 23:31
“‹Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.›”
Verse in context — Matthew 23
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‹Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,›
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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 the blood of the prophets.›
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‹Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.›
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‹Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.›
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[Ye] ‹serpents,› [ye] ‹generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?›
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