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Matthew 23:29 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 29. 29Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
King James Version — public domain in the United States · Bible text and permissions
Role in This Section
Pronounces woe on building prophetic tombs and decorating righteous graves.
Read It With
- Matthew 23:25–23:36
Read Matthew 23:29 with 23:25–23:36. In isolation, this verse's contribution—pronounces woe on building prophetic tombs and decorating righteous graves—can be detached from its speaker, audience, narrative or teaching sequence, and outcome. The complete unit establishes: Jesus compares leaders to cups clean outside but greedy within, whitewashed tombs, and monument builders who claim distance from ancestral murder while completing its pattern; he announces accountability for coming messengers.
Continue in Context
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Read Matthew 23:25–23:36 — Woes expose inner greed, death, and inherited violenceSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Matthew 23:25–23:36, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control without treating one edition as a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text file data/sblgnt/text/Matt.txt, Matthew 23:25–23:36
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