Mateus 23:31

31 Assim, testemunham contra vocês mesmos que são descendentes dos que assassinaram os profetas.

Mateus 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.

Mateus 23:31 In-Context

29 “Ai de vocês, mestres da lei e fariseus, hipócritas! Vocês edificam os túmulos dos profetas e adornam os monumentos dos justos.

30 E dizem: ‘Se tivéssemos vivido no tempo dos nossos antepassados, não teríamos tomado parte com eles no derramamento do sangue dos profetas’.

31 Assim, testemunham contra vocês mesmos que são descendentes dos que assassinaram os profetas.

32 Acabem, pois, de encher a medida do pecado dos seus antepassados!

33 “Serpentes! Raça de víboras! Como vocês escaparão da condenação ao inferno?