Mǎtaìfúyīn 23:31

31 Zhè jiù shì nǐmen zìjǐ zhèngmíng , shì shāhaì xiānzhī zhĕ de zǐsūn le .

Mǎtaìfúyīn 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.

Mǎtaìfúyīn 23:31 In-Context

29 Nǐmen zhè jiǎmàowéishàn de Wénshì hé Fǎlìsaìrén yǒu huò le . yīnwei nǐmen jiànzào xiānzhī de fùn , xiūshì yì rén de mù , shuō ,

30 Ruò shì wǒmen zaì wǒmen zǔzong de shíhou , bì bù hé tāmen tóng liú xiānzhī de xiĕ .

31 Zhè jiù shì nǐmen zìjǐ zhèngmíng , shì shāhaì xiānzhī zhĕ de zǐsūn le .

32 Nǐmen qù chōngmǎn nǐmen zǔzong de è guàn ba .

33 Nǐmen zhèxie shé leì , dúshé zhī zhǒng a , zĕn néng taótuō dìyù de xíngfá ne .