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


In Context

27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous,

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

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

32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Matthew 23:30 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:30And 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:30And you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:30And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:30and ye 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:30and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:30And 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:30and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn't have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.'

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:30and 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:30And 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.