But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?

He said therefore to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?