Mateo 23:31

31 Así que dais testimonio en contra de vosotros mismos, que sois hijos de los que asesinaron a los profetas.

Mateo 23:31 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 23:31

Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves
Or "against yourselves", as the Syriac reads; for what they said was a plain acknowledgment, and a full confession, what their fathers had done, and whose offspring they were; and from whom better things were not to be expected; since they were their fathers' own children, and of the same temper and disposition with them: that ye are the children of them that killed the prophets.
They plainly owned, that their fathers killed the prophets, and that they descended from them; though they meant not so much to reproach, their ancestors, as to give themselves a greater character; yet it did not with those, that knew them; not with our Lord: for as their own words testified against them, that they were a seed of evildoers; their practices showed them to be of the same spirit and principles with their progenitors.

Mateo 23:31 In-Context

29 ¡Ay de vosotros, escribas y fariseos, hipócritas!, porque edificáis los sepulcros de los profetas y adornáis los monumentos de los justos,

30 y decís: "Si nosotros hubiéramos vivido en los días de nuestros padres, no hubiéramos sido sus cómplices en derramar la sangre de los profetas."

31 Así que dais testimonio en contra de vosotros mismos, que sois hijos de los que asesinaron a los profetas.

32 Llenad, pues, la medida de la culpa de vuestros padres.

33 ¡Serpientes! ¡Camada de víboras! ¿Cómo escaparéis del juicio del infierno ?