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29 a“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and1 adorn the monuments of the righteous,  
30 and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’
31 “Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that ayou are sons of those who murdered the prophets.  
32 aFill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ guilt.  
33 Serpents, abrood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?  
34 aTherefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: bsome of them you will kill and crucify, and csome of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,  
35 athat on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, bfrom the blood of righteous Abel to cthe blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.  
36 Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.

Jesus Laments over Jerusalem

37 a“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets band stones those who are sent to her! How often cI wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks dunder her wings, but you were not willing!  
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John Wesley's Notes
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Matthew 23:31

Wherefore ye testify against yourselves - By your smooth words as well as devilish actions: that ye are the genuine sons of them who killed the prophets of their own times, while they professed the utmost veneration for those of past ages.

From Mat. 23:3-30 is exposed every thing that commonly passes in the world for religion, whereby the pretenders to it keep both themselves and others from entering into the kingdom of God; from attaining, or even seeking after those tempers, in which alone true Christianity consists. As, Punctuality in attending on public and private prayer, Matthew 23:4-14. Zeal to make proselytes to our opinion or communion, though they have less of the spirit of religion than before, Matthew 23:15. A superstitious reverence for consecrated places or things, without any for Him to whom they are consecrated, Matthew 23:16-22. A scrupulous exactness in little observances, though with the neglect of justice, mercy, and faith, Matthew 23:23-24. A nice cautiousness to cleanse the outward behaviour, but without any regard to inward purity, Matthew 23:25-26. A specious face of virtue and piety, covering the deepest hypocrisy and villany, Matthew 23:27-28 A professed veneration for all good men, except those among whom they live.


 
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