Woes to Scribes and Pharisees
Matthew 23:30
In 9 translations
- BSB
- And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’
- KJV
- And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
- WEB
- and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’
- ASV
- and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
- LSV
- and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
- YLT
- and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
- DBY
- and ye say, If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
- DRC
- And say: If we had been in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
- GNV
- And say, If we had bene in the dayes of our fathers, we would not haue bene partners with them in the blood of the Prophets.
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Where the editions differ
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- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ἤμεθα (“we were”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ἦμεν (“we were”).
- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ἤμεθα (“we were ourselves being”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ἦμεν (“we were being”).
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Word order: Tyndale House, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text place αὐτῶν elsewhere in this verse.
SBLGNT apparatus (3)
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- SBLGNT: ⸀ἤμεθα. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ⸀ἤμεθα; Robinson–Pierpont read ἦμεν.
- SBLGNT: ⸁ἤμεθα. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ⸁ἤμεθα; Robinson–Pierpont read ἦμεν.
- SBLGNT: αὐτῶν κοινωνοὶ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read αὐτῶν κοινωνοὶ; Robinson–Pierpont read κοινωνοὶ αὐτῶν.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- καὶ λέγετε· Εἰ ἤμεθα ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν, οὐκ ἂν ἤμεθα αὐτῶν κοινωνοὶ ἐν τῷ αἵματι τῶν προφητῶν·
- RP2018
- καὶ λέγετε, Εἰ ἦμεν ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν, οὐκ ἂν ἦμεν κοινωνοὶ αὐτῶν ἐν τῷ αἵματι τῶν προφητῶν.
- TR-Boyd
- καὶ λέγετε, Εἰ ἦμεν ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν, οὐκ ἂν ἦμεν κοινωνοὶ αὐτῶν ἐν τῷ αἵματι τῶν προφητῶν.
- SCR1894
- και λεγετε ει ημεν εν ταις ημεραις των πατερων ημων ουκ αν ημεν κοινωνοι αυτων εν τω αιματι των προφητων
Who and where
◆ Holy Week◆ Debates in the Temple
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
FatherSelf-RighteousnessSatireTeachersEcclesiasticismScribesPhariseesEthics of JesusThessalonians, the Second Epistle of Paul to theApocalyptic Literature
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Cross-references most cited first
- Matthew 23:34–35Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town. And so upon you will come all…
- Jeremiah 2:30“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”
- Matthew 21:35–36But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. Again, he sent other servants, more than the first group. But the tenants did the same to them.
- 2 Chronicles 36:15Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).