Matthew 23:32
New International Version
Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started!

New Living Translation
Go ahead and finish what your ancestors started.

English Standard Version
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

Berean Standard Bible
Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.

Berean Literal Bible
You, then, fill up the measure of your fathers.

King James Bible
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

New King James Version
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ guilt.

New American Standard Bible
Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers.

NASB 1995
“Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers.

NASB 1977
“Fill up then the measure of the guilt of your fathers.

Legacy Standard Bible
Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers.

Amplified Bible
Fill up, then, the [allotted] measure of the guilt of your fathers’ sins.

Christian Standard Bible
Fill up, then, the measure of your ancestors’ sins!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ sins!

American Standard Version
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
So fulfill the standard of your forefathers.

Contemporary English Version
So keep on doing everything they did.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

English Revised Version
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Go ahead, finish what your ancestors started!

Good News Translation
Go on, then, and finish up what your ancestors started!

International Standard Version
Then finish what your ancestors started!

Literal Standard Version
and you fill up the measure of your fathers.

Majority Standard Bible
Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.

New American Bible
now fill up what your ancestors measured out!

NET Bible
Fill up then the measure of your ancestors!

New Revised Standard Version
Fill up, then, the measure of your ancestors.

New Heart English Bible
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

Webster's Bible Translation
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Weymouth New Testament
Fill up the measure of your forefathers' guilt.

World English Bible
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

Young's Literal Translation
and ye -- ye fill up the measure of your fathers.

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Context
Woes to Scribes and Pharisees
31So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers. 33You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?…

Cross References
Jeremiah 7:26
Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.

Jeremiah 32:18
You show loving devotion to thousands but lay the iniquity of the fathers into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Hosts,

Ezekiel 20:4
Will you judge them, will you judge them, son of man? Confront them with the abominations of their fathers

Matthew 23:31
So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Matthew 23:33
You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?

1 Thessalonians 2:16
hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full capacity; the utmost wrath has come upon them.


Treasury of Scripture

Fill you up then the measure of your fathers.

the measure.

Genesis 15:16
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

Numbers 32:14
And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.

Zechariah 5:6-11
And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth…

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Matthew 23
1. Jesus admonishes the people to follow good doctrine, not bad examples
5. His disciples must beware of their ambition.
13. He denounces eight woes against their hypocrisy and blindness,
34. and prophesies of the destruction of Jerusalem.














(32) Fill ye up then . . .--The English fails to give the pathetic abruptness of the original: And ye--fill ye up the measure of your fathers. The thought implied is that which we find in Genesis 15:16, and of which the history of the world offers but too many illustrations. Each generation, as it passes, adds something to the ever-accumulating mass of evil. At last the penalty falls, as though the long-suffering of God had been waiting till the appointed limit had been reached, and the measure of iniquity was at last full.

Verse 32. - Fill ye up then; καὶ ὑμεῖς πληρώσατε: do ye also (as well as they) fill up. An imperative, expressive of Divine irony, containing virtually a prophecy. Complete your evil work, finish that which your fathers began (comp. John 13:27). The measure. There is a certain limit to iniquity; when this is reached, punishment falls. The metaphor is derived from a full cup, which a single drop more will make overflow. This added drop would be the death of Christ and the persecution of his followers. Then vengeance must follow (comp. Genesis 15:16; 1 Thessalonians 2:16).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Fill up,
πληρώσατε (plērōsate)
Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4137: From pleres; to make replete, i.e. to cram, level up, or to furnish, satisfy, execute, finish, verify, etc.

then,
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

the
τὸ (to)
Article - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

measure
μέτρον (metron)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3358: An apparently primary word; a measure, literally or figuratively; by implication, a limited portion.

of
τῶν (tōn)
Article - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

fathers’ [sins].
πατέρων (paterōn)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'.


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