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Matthew 23:31

WEB

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

KJV

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

BSB

31So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

FBV

31But by saying this you testify against yourselves, proving that you belong to those who murdered the prophets!

Related Resources

Gospel of Matthew Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 2) - BibleProject
How Does Israel ‘Fill Up Their Sins’? 1 Thessalonians 2:13–16, Part 9 - Desiring God

Extra References

Acts 7:51-52

51You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do. 52Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.


1 Thessalonians 2:15-16

15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men, 16forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.


Joshua 24:22

22Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD yourselves, to serve him.” They said, “We are witnesses.”


Luke 19:22

22He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down and reaping that which I didn’t sow.


Job 15:5-6

5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty. 6Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.


Psalms 64:8

8Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.