Matthew 23:26-36

26 "You blind Pharisee, first 1clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also.
27 "2Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.
28 "So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29 "3Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,
30 and say, 'If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'
31 "So you testify against yourselves, that you 4are sons of those who murdered the prophets.
32 "Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers.
33 "You serpents, 5you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of 6hell?
34 "7Therefore *, behold, 8I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will 9scourge in your synagogues, and 10persecute from city to city,
35 so that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous 11Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the 12son of Berechiah, whom 13you murdered between the temple and the altar.
36 "Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon 14this generation.#rl

Cross References 14

  • 1. Mark 7:4; Luke 11:39
  • 2. Luke 11:44; Acts 23:3
  • 3. Luke 11:47
  • 4. Matthew 23:34, 37; Acts 7:51
  • 5. Matthew 3:7; Luke 3:7
  • 6. Matthew 5:22
  • 7. Matthew 23:34-36; Luke 11:49-51
  • 8. 2 Chronicles 36:15, 16
  • 9. Matthew 10:17
  • 10. Matthew 10:23
  • 11. Genesis 4:8f; Hebrews 11:4
  • 12. Zechariah 1:1
  • 13. 2 Chronicles 24:21
  • 14. Matthew 10:23; Matthew 24:34

Footnotes 5

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