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29 “Woe to you, experts in the law[a] and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You[b] build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves[c] of the righteous.

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  1. Matthew 23:29 tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.
  2. Matthew 23:29 tn Grk “Because you.” Here ὅτι (hoti) has not been translated.
  3. Matthew 23:29 tn Or perhaps “the monuments” (see L&N 7.75-76).

30 And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors,[a] we would not have participated with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

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  1. Matthew 23:30 tn Grk “fathers” (so also in v. 32).