31Why you be witnesses to yourselves, that you are the children of them which killed the prophets.


In Context

28 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous,

30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

31 Why you be witnesses to yourselves, that you are the children of them which killed the prophets.

32 Fill you up then the measure of your fathers.

33 You serpents, you generation of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell?

Matthew 23:31 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:31Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:31So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:31Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:31Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:31So that ye bear witness of yourselves that ye are sons of those who slew the prophets:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:31Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:31Wherefore ye are witnesses to yourselves, that ye are the children of them who killed the prophets.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:31Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:31So that ye testify to yourselves, that ye are sons of them who did murder the prophets;