Matthew 23:32-39

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

33 "You serpents, ¹you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of ²hell?

34 "³Therefore *, behold, ⁴I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will ⁵scourge in your synagogues, and ⁶persecute 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 ⁷Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the ⁸son of Berechiah, whom ⁹you murdered between the temple and the altar.

36 "Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon ¹⁰this generation.#rl

Lament over Jerusalem

37 "¹¹Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who ¹²kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, ¹³the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling *.

38 "Behold, ¹⁴your house is being left to you desolate!

39 "For I say to you, from now on you will not see Me until you say, '¹⁵BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!' "

Cross References

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

Footnotes

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