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Matthew Chapter 23 verse 30 Holy Bible

ASV Matthew 23:30

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.
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BBE Matthew 23:30

If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.
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DARBY Matthew 23:30

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.
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KJV Matthew 23:30

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.
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WBT Matthew 23:30

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WEB Matthew 23:30

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.'
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YLT Matthew 23:30

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.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 30. - And say. They boasted that they were better than their fathers; they disavowed their crimes, and endeavoured, by honouring the prophets' graves, to deliver themselves from the guilt of those who persecuted them. Fair show, with no reality! They professed to venerate the dead, but would not receive the living; they reverenced Abraham and Moses, but were about to murder the Christ to whom patriarch and prophet bore witness. Commentators quote the old adage, herein exemplified, "Sit licet divus, dummodo non vivus." The only practical way of delivering themselves from the guilt of their forefathers was by hearkening to those who now preached the gospel of salvation - the very last thing which they were purposed to do.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(30) If we had been in the days . . .--There is no necessity for assuming that the Pharisees did not mean what they said. It was simply an instance of the unconscious hypocrisy of which every generation has more or less been guilty, when it has condemned the wrong-doing of the past--its bigotry, or luxury, or greed--and then has yielded to the same sins itself.