But when he[a] saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “Offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance! And do not think to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 3:7 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal