Mateo 23:31

31 Pero así quedan implicados ustedes al declararse descendientes 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 ustedes, maestros de la ley y fariseos, hipócritas! Construyen sepulcros para los profetas y adornan los monumentos de los justos.

30 Y dicen: “Si hubiéramos vivido nosotros en los días de nuestros antepasados, no habríamos sido cómplices de ellos para derramar la sangre de los profetas”.

31 Pero así quedan implicados ustedes al declararse descendientes de los que asesinaron a los profetas.

32 ¡Completen de una vez por todas lo que sus antepasados comenzaron!

33 »¡Serpientes! ¡Camada de víboras! ¿Cómo escaparán ustedes de la condenación del infierno?