What does Matthew 23:31 mean?

Matthew 23:31 highlights themes such as faith and obedience when read in context.

How should I apply Matthew 23:31 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

29Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

30And 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.

31Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

33Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

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