Matthew 23:29-39

29 "¹Woe 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 ²are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

32 "Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers.

33 "You serpents, ³you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of ⁴hell?

34 "⁵Therefore *, behold, ⁶I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will ⁷scourge in your synagogues, and ⁸persecute 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 ⁹Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the ¹⁰son of Berechiah, whom ¹¹you murdered between the temple and the altar.

36 "Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon ¹²this generation.#rl

Lament over Jerusalem

37 "¹³Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who ¹⁴kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, ¹⁵the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling *.

38 "Behold, ¹⁶your house is being left to you desolate!

39 "For I say to you, from now on you will not see Me until you say, '¹⁷BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!' "

Cross References

• 1. Luke 11:47
• 2. Matthew 23:34, 37; Acts 7:51
• 3. Matthew 3:7; Luke 3:7
• 4. Matthew 5:22
• 5. Matthew 23:34-36; Luke 11:49-51
• 6. 2 Chronicles 36:15, 16
• 7. Matthew 10:17
• 8. Matthew 10:23
• 9. Genesis 4:8f; Hebrews 11:4
• 10. Zechariah 1:1
• 11. 2 Chronicles 24:21
• 12. Matthew 10:23; Matthew 24:34
• 13. Matthew 23:37-39: {Luke 13:34, 35}
• 14. Matthew 5:12
• 15. Ruth 2:12
• 16. 1 Kings 9:7; Jeremiah 22:5
• 17. Psalms 118:26; Matthew 21:9

Footnotes

• [a] Or "descendants"
• [b] Lit "would"
• [c] Or "judgment"
• [d] Gr "Gehenna"
• [e] Or "sanctuary"