Matthew 23:34 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁴Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:

Matthew 23:34 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 10:16-17
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. …
Matthew 13:52
Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
Colossians 1:28
Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
Matthew 10:23
But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
Matthew 23:34-36
Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 34-39)

We have left the blind leaders fallen into the ditch, under Christ’s sentence, into the damnation of hell; let us see what will become of the blind followers, of the body of the Jewish church, and particularly Jerusalem. I. Jesus Christ designs yet to try them with the means of grace; I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes. The connection is strange; “ You are a generation of vipers,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 34)

34. Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes--The I here is emphatic: “I am sending,” that is, “am about to send.” In Lu 11:49 the variation is remarkable: “Therefore also, said the wisdom of God, I will send them,” &c. What precisely is meant by “the wisdom of God” here, is somewhat difficult to determine. To us it appears to be simply an announcement of a purpose of…