Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
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Gill's Exposition
That the blood of all the prophets,.... The same with "all the righteous blood", or the blood of all the righteous men, in Mat 23:35,
which was shed from the foundation of the world: for there were…
See the notes at Mat 23:29-36. Luk 11:49 The wisdom of God - By the “wisdom of God,” here, is undoubtedly meant the Saviour himself. What he immediately says is not written in the Old Testament. Jesus…
Adam Clarke
Truly ye bear witness - Ye acknowledge that those of old who killed the prophets were your fathers, and ye are about to show, by your conduct towards me and my apostles, that ye are not degenerated,…
Christ here says many of those things to a Pharisee and his guests, in a private conversation at table, which he afterwards said in a public discourse in the temple (Mt. 23); for what he said in…
Cambridge Bible
bear witness...allow We find the same two words used of St Paul in Act 7:58; Act 8:1. Allow means -approve after trial," and is derived from allaudare."The Lord alloweththe righteous," Psa 11:6…
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