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Matthew 23:31

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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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  1. Matthew 23:29

    Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

  2. 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.

  3. Matthew 23:32

    Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

  4. Matthew 23:33

    Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.