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Matthew 23:31

Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

KJV

ὥστε μαρτυρεῖτε ἑαυτοῖς ὅτι υἱοί ἐστε τῶν φονευσάντων τοὺς προφήτας.

Greek NT

itaque testimonio estis vobismetipsis, quia filii estis eorum, qui prophetas occiderunt.

Vulgate

Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.

ASV

Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
μαρτυρέω
martureo
verb · 76×
προφήτης
prophetes
noun · 145×
υἱός
uios
noun · 375×
φονεύω
phoneuo
verb · 12×
ἑαυτοῦ
eautou
reflexive_pronoun · 316×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
ὥστε
oste
conjunction · 85×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Thess 2:15 — Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
  • 1Thess 2:15 — Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
  • Acts 7:51 — Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
  • Acts 7:51 — Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
  • Acts 7:52 — Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
  • Lam 4:13 — For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
  • Luke 11:48 — Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
  • Matt 5:12 — Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
  • Matt 21:35 — And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
  • Num 12:6 — And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
  • Num 32:14 — And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
  • Num 35:33 — So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
  • Ps 78:8 — And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
  • Ps 109:14 — Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
  • Rom 9:22 — What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: