Jesus

Matthew 23:29

Warning Temple and Tradition

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous."

— Matthew 23:29

Jesus condemning those who honor dead prophets while rejecting living ones

Book

Matthew

Chapter & Verses

Ch. 23, v.29

Matthew 16:23

"Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns."

Matthew 21:43

"Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit."

Matthew 23:13

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people's faces."

Same theme (Temple and Tradition) in other Gospels

Mark 9:11

"Why do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?"

Mark 9:12

"To be sure, Elijah does come first, and restores all things. Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected?"

Mark 9:13

"But I tell you, Elijah has come, and they have done to him everything they wished, just as it is written about him."