Mateo 23:31

31 »Así que al decir eso, dan testimonio en contra de ustedes mismos, que en verdad son descendientes de aquellos 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 »¡Qué aflicción les espera, maestros de la ley religiosa y fariseos! ¡Hipócritas! Edifican tumbas a los profetas que sus antepasados mataron, y adornan los monumentos de la gente justa que sus antepasados destruyeron.

30 Luego dicen: “Si hubiéramos vivido en los días de nuestros antepasados, jamás nos habríamos unido a ellos para matar a los profetas”.

31 »Así que al decir eso, dan testimonio en contra de ustedes mismos, que en verdad son descendientes de aquellos que asesinaron a los profetas.

32 Sigan adelante y terminen lo que sus antepasados comenzaron.

33 ¡Serpientes! ¡Hijos de víboras! ¿Cómo escaparán del juicio del infierno?