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33 You serpents! You spawn of vipers! How can you escape the [a]penalty to be suffered in hell (Gehenna)?

34 Because of this, take notice: I am sending you prophets and wise men (interpreters and teachers) and scribes (men learned in the Mosaic Law and the Prophets); some of them you will kill, even crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue and persecute from town to town,

35 So that upon your heads may come all the blood of the righteous ([b]those who correspond to the divine standard of right) shed on earth, from the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar [of burnt offering].(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 23:33 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  2. Matthew 23:35 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon.

33 “You snakes! You brood of vipers!(A) How will you escape being condemned to hell?(B) 34 Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify;(C) others you will flog in your synagogues(D) and pursue from town to town.(E) 35 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel(F) to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah,(G) whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.(H)

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