Mattheüs 23:31

Staten Vertaling

Aldus getuigt gij tegen uzelven, dat gij kinderen zijt dergenen, die de profeten gedood hebben.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
Zo erkent gij dat gij zonen der profetenmoordenaars zijt.

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Zo geeft gij immers van uzelven getuigenis, dat gij kinderen zijt dergenen, die de profeten gedood hebben.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

witnesses: Joshua 24:22, Job 15:5, Job 15:6, Psalms 64:8, Luke 19:22

that: Acts 7:51, Acts 7:52, 1 Thessalonians 2:15, 1 Thessalonians 2:16

Reciprocal: Numbers 12:6 - a prophet Numbers 32:14 - an increase Numbers 35:33 - it defileth 2 Kings 21:16 - Manasseh Job 21:19 - for his Psalms 69:27 - Add Psalms 78:8 - as their Psalms 109:14 - Let the Isaiah 30:9 - this is Isaiah 59:7 - and they Isaiah 65:7 - Your iniquities Jeremiah 26:8 - the priests Lamentations 4:13 - that Daniel 9:16 - for the Hosea 5:5 - testify Hosea 10:9 - did Zechariah 11:3 - a voice Matthew 5:12 - for so Matthew 21:35 - General Luke 3:20 - General Luke 6:23 - for in Romans 9:22 - fitted Hebrews 6:6 - they crucify

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves,.... Or "against yourselves", as the Syriac reads; for what they said was a plain acknowledgment, and a full confession, what their fathers had done, and whose offspring they were; and from whom better things were not to be expected; since they were their fathers' own children, and of the same temper and disposition with them:

that ye are the children of them that killed the prophets. They plainly owned, that their fathers killed the prophets, and that they descended from them; though they meant not so much to reproach, their ancestors, as to give themselves a greater character; yet it did not with those, that knew them; not with our Lord: for as their own words testified against them, that they were a seed of evildoers; their practices showed them to be of the same spirit and principles with their progenitors.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye be witnesses unto yourselves - The emphasis, here, lies in the words “to yourselves.” It is an appeal to their conscience. It was not by their building the tombs that they were witnesses that they were the children of those who killed the prophets; but that, in spite of all this pretence of piety, under all this cloak of profession, they knew in their consciences, and were witnesses to themselves, that it was mere hypocrisy, and that they really approved the conduct of those who slew the prophets.

Children of them ... - Resembling them; approving their conduct; inheriting their feelings. See the notes at Matthew 1:1. They not only showed that they were descended from them, but that they possessed their spirit, and that, in similar circumstances, they would have done as they did.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 31. Ye be witnesses — Ye acknowledge that ye are the children of those murderers, and ye are about to give full proof that ye are not degenerated.

There are many who think that, had they lived in the time of our Lord, they would not have acted towards him as the Jews did. But we can scarcely believe that they who reject his Gospel, trample under foot his precepts, do despite to the Spirit of his grace, love sin, and hate his followers, would have acted otherwise to him than the murdering Jews, had they lived in the same times.