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

Bible References

The pharisees

For I assure you that unless your righteousness greatly surpasses that of the Scribes and the Pharisees, you will certainly not find entrance into the Kingdom of the Heavens.

The Pharisees heard it and said, "This man only expels demons by the power of Baal-zebul, the Prince of demons."

Then His disciples came and said to Him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were greatly shocked when they heard those words?"

and when Jesus said to them, "See to it: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees,"

Then the Pharisees went and consulted together how they might entrap Him in His conversation.

"But alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you lock the door of the Kingdom of the Heavens against men; you yourselves do not enter, nor do you allow those to enter who are seeking to do so.

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews--being, as they are, zealous for the traditions of the Elders--never eat without first carefully washing their hands,

and when He admonished them, "See to it, be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod,"

Their next step was to send to Him some of the Pharisees and of Herod's partisans to entrap Him in conversation.

But the Pharisees and expounders of the Law have frustrated God's purpose as to their own lives, by refusing to be baptized.

The Master however said to him, "Here we see how you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup or plate, while your secret hearts are full of greed and selfishness.

To all this the Pharisees listened, bitterly jeering at Him; for they were lovers of money.

The Pharisee, standing erect, prayed as follows by himself: "'O God, I thank Thee that I am not like other people--I am not a thief nor a cheat nor an adulterer, nor do I even resemble this tax-gatherer.

They were Pharisees who had been sent.

Meanwhile the officers returned to the High Priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why have you not brought him?"

These words were heard by those of the Pharisees who were present, and they asked Him, "Are *we* also blind?"

While they were saying this to the people, the Priests, the Commander of the Temple Guard, and the Sadducees came upon them,

This roused the High Priest. He and all his party--the sect of the Sadducees--were filled with angry jealousy

But certain men who had belonged to the sect of the Pharisees but were now believers, stood up in the assembly, and said, "Yes, Gentile believers ought to be circumcised and be ordered to keep the Law of Moses."

Noticing, however, that the Sanhedrin consisted partly of Sadducees and partly of Pharisees, he called out loudly among them, "Brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees. It is because of my hope of a resurrection of the dead that I am on my trial."

For they all know me of old--if they would but testify to the fact--how, being an adherent of the strictest sect of our religion, my life was that of a Pharisee.

O generation

O vipers' brood, how can you speak what is good when you are evil? For it is from the overflow of the heart that the mouth speaks.

O serpents, O vipers' brood, how are you to escape condemnation to Gehenna?

Accordingly John used to say to the crowds who came out to be baptized by him, "O vipers' brood, who has warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

The father whose sons you are is the Devil; and you desire to do what gives him pleasure. *He* was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth--for there is no truth in him. Whenever he utters his lie, he utters it out of his own store; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

By this we can distinguish God's children and the Devil's children: no one who fails to act righteously is a child of God, nor he who does not love his brother man.

The great Dragon, the ancient serpent, he who is called 'the Devil' and 'the Adversary' and leads the whole earth astray, was hurled down: he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

Flee

If therefore we have now been pronounced free from guilt through His blood, much more shall we be delivered from God's anger through Him.

and to await the return from Heaven of His Son, whom He raised from among the dead--even Jesus, our Deliverer from God's coming anger.

They will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, being banished from the presence of the Lord and from His glorious majesty,

He added an oath, in order that, through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for Him to prove false, we may possess mighty encouragement--we who, for safety, have hastened to lay hold of the hope set before us.

while they called to the mountains and the rocks, saying, "Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne and from the anger of the Lamb;