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Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are sons of those who killed the prophets.
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An Ironic Confession
Commentators explain that Jesus masterfully turns the Pharisees' own words against them. When they acknowledge being the "sons" of those who killed the prophets, they mean it as a statement of physical lineage, distancing themselves from their ancestors' sins. Jesus reveals the irony: they are indeed their fathers' sons, not just by blood, but by their shared murderous spirit and hypocritical actions.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Ye be witnesses unto yourselves. The emphasis, here, lies in the words "unto yourselves." It was an appeal to their conscience. It was not…
19th Century
Anglican
You are witnesses to yourselves—Their words were true, but in a different sense than they had intended. They were reproducing in their dee…
Baptist
The eighth “woe” referred to their false professions of reverence for “the goodly fellowship of the prophets” and “the noble army of martyrs”: …
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But the distinction the Jews draw in v.30 Jesus now denies. Their own saying testifies against them. They speak fondly of their ancestors and so ac…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Therefore you are witnesses to yourselves Or "against yourselves", as the Syriac reads; for what they said was a pla…
The scribes and Pharisees were enemies of the gospel of Christ, and therefore of the salvation of people's souls. It is bad to keep away from Chris…
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13th Century
Catholic
After He instructed the disciples and the multitudes about the caution they should have regarding the Jews' doctrine, He now directs His words to t…
