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

I also tell you, your righteousness must be greater than the scribes and Pharisees or you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

When the Pharisees heard it, they said: This man casts out demons by Beelzebub, the prince of the demons.

The disciples told him the Pharisees were upset by what he said.

Jesus said: Take care to have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

The Pharisees took counsel how they might trap him in his talk.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You close the kingdom of heaven to people. You do not invite others to enter nor do you enter.

(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat until they wash their hands. They practice the tradition of the elders.)

He ordered them to be aware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.

Pharisees and Herodians went to him that they might catch him in talk.

The Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God and were not baptized by him.

The Lord said: You Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter. Yet your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

Hearing this the Pharisees made fun of Jesus, because they loved money.

The Pharisee stood and prayed like this: God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.

They were sent from the Pharisees.

The chief priests and Pharisees asked the officers: Why did you not bring him?

Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him: Are we also blind?

As they spoke to the people, the chief priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came to them.

Then the high priest rose up, and all those of the sect of the Sadducees who were with him were filled with zeal (indignation).

The believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stated: It is needed to circumcise them and to command them to keep the Law of Moses.

When Paul saw that part of them were Sadducees and the other part Pharisees, he cried out in the Sanhedrin: Men! Brothers! I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee! I am being judged because of the hope and resurrection of the dead.

They knew me from the beginning. They could testify that I was from the strictest sect of our religion and I lived as a Pharisee.

O generation

You offspring of vipers. How can you who are evil speak good things? Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

You serpents! You offspring of vipers! How will you escape from being destroyed in the ever-burning fires of the Valley of Hinnom? (Greek: Gehenna, the trash fires in the valley just outside of Jerusalem)

And I will put enmity (hostility) (hatred) between you and the woman, and between your offspring (seed) and hers. He will bruise (overwhelm) (crush) you in the head, and you will bruise (overwhelm) (crush) him in the heel. (Romans 16:20)

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born. They speak lies.

But come here, you sons of the witch, you offspring of the adulterer and the prostitute!

They hatch viper eggs and weave spider webs. Those who eat their eggs will die. When an egg is crushed, a poisonous snake is hatched.

He told the crowds that came to be baptized by him: You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

You are from your father [Satan] the Devil (slanderer) (false accuser)! You want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning. He does not stand for the truth. There is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks his own lies. He is a liar and the father of the lie!

In this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed. Whoever does not practice righteousness is not from God. He who does not love his brother is not from God.

The great dragon was thrown down, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was hurled down to the earth, and his angels with him.

Flee

Much more, now justified by his blood, we will be saved from the wrath of God through him.

and to wait for his Son to come from heaven, his Son Jesus, whom he raised from death and who rescues us from God's anger (indignation) that is to come.

They will suffer punishment, even eternal destruction from the Lord and from the glory of his might.

God did this to offer encouragement so we may rely on the hope offered to us. We have taken refuge in that hope and it is impossible for God to lie. These two things can never be changed.

They said to the mountains and rocks: Fall on us, and hide us from the presence of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

General references

A prudent man anticipates evil and hides; but the simple pass on, and are punished.