World English Bible

Matthew 23:30

“and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn't have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.”

Verse in context — Matthew 23

Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,

and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn't have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

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

Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

Jesus as the promised Messiah, fulfilling Old Testament prophecy.