Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them: Generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the coining wrath?
Matthew 12:34
Generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
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They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
Crushed breaketh out into a viper
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Crushed breaketh out into a viper
Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them: Generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the coining wrath?
Matthew 12:34
Generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
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Acts 24:9
And the Jews united in accusing him, saying that these things were so.