Matthew 3:7

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Summary

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

The pharisees

O generation

Flee

Revelation 6:16

General references

Proverbs 27:12

Bible References

The pharisees

because I tell you, unless your righteousness greatly exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom from heaven!"

But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, "This man drives out demons only by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons."

Then the disciples came and asked him, "Do you realize that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this statement?"

Jesus told them, "Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

Then the Pharisees went and planned how to trap Jesus in conversation.

"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door to the kingdom from heaven in people's faces. You don't go in yourselves, and you don't allow those who are trying to enter to go in.

(The Pharisees and indeed all the Jewish people don't eat unless they wash their hands properly, following the tradition of their elders.

Jesus had been warning them, "Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod!"

Then they sent some Pharisees and some Herodians to him, intending to trap him in what he said.

But the Pharisees and the experts in the Law rejected God's plan for themselves by refusing to be baptized by John.

But the Lord told him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but on the inside you are full of greed and evil.

Now the Pharisees, who love money, had been listening to all this and began to ridicule Jesus.

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, "O God, I thank you that I'm not like other people thieves, dishonest people, adulterers, or even this tax collector.

Now those men had been sent from the Pharisees.

Then the officers returned to the high priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why didn't you bring him?"

Some of the Pharisees who were near him overheard this and asked him, "We aren't blind, too, are we?"

While they were speaking to the people, the priests, the commander of the Temple guards, and the Sadducees came to them.

Then the high priest and all those from the sect of the Sadducees who were with him were filled with jealousy. So they went out,

But some believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, "The gentiles must be circumcised and ordered to keep the Law of Moses."

When Paul saw that some of them were Sadducees and others were Pharisees, he shouted in the Council, "Brothers, I'm a Pharisee and a descendant of Pharisees. I'm on trial concerning the hope that the dead will be resurrected."

They have known for a long time, if they would but testify to it, that I lived as a Pharisee, adhering to the standards of our strictest religious party.

O generation

You children of serpents! How can you say anything good when you are evil? The mouth speaks about what overflows from the heart.

You snakes, you children of serpents! How can you escape being condemned to hell?

"I'll place hostility between you and the woman, between your offspring and her offspring. He'll strike you on the head, and you'll strike him on the heel."

The wicked go astray from the womb; they go astray, telling lies even from birth.

"But as for you, come here, you children of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!

They hatch adders' eggs and weave a spider's web; whoever eats their eggs dies, and any crushed egg hatches out futility.

John would say to the crowds that were coming out to be baptized by him, "You children of serpents! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

You belong to your father the Devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood for truth, since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

This is how God's children and the Devil's children are distinguished. No person who fails to practice righteousness and to love his brother is from God.

The huge dragon was hurled down. That ancient serpent, called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, along with its angels.

Flee

Now that we have been justified by his blood, how much more will we be saved from wrath through him!

and to wait for his Son whom he raised from the dead to come back from heaven. This Jesus is the one who rescues us from the coming wrath.

Such people will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction by being separated from the Lord's presence and from his glorious power

so that by these two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to prove false, we who have taken refuge in him might be encouraged to seize the hope set before us.

They told the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb.

General references

Those who are prudent see danger and take refuge, but the naive continue on and suffer the consequences.