Matthew 23:31-33

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³¹So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. ³²Fill up, then, the [allotted] measure of the guilt of your fathers’ sins. ³³You ^[a]serpents, you spawn of vipers, how can you escape the penalty of hell?

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Footnotes

Matthew 23:33 The serpent is the creature used by Satan to introduce evil into the Garden of Eden (Gen 3:1ff). Here Jesus continues the imagery of Satan as the serpent working through the religious leaders to continue the propagation of evil through deception, false teaching, and man-made laws and traditions which are given priority over God’s law.