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29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you build the burial-places of the prophets and adorn[a] the tombs of the righteous ones, 30 and say, ‘If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been their partners in the blood of the prophets’. 31 So then, you are testifying concerning yourselves that you are sons[b] of the ones having murdered the prophets.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 23:29 Or, decorate, put in order.
  2. Matthew 23:31 That is, you share the traits of your fathers who murdered the prophets. Compare Lk 11:48.

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