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  • Matthew 23:32
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 32 Well, then, fill up the measure of your forefathers.

  • Matthew 23:32
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 32 καὶ And ὑμεῖς YOU πληρώσατε fill YOU up τὸ the μέτρον measure τῶν of the πατέρων fathers ὑμῶν. of YOU.

  • Matthew 23:32
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 32 Well, then, fill up the measure+ of YOUR forefathers.*

  • Matthew 23:32
    The Bible in Living English
    • 32 fill up your fathers’ measure yourselves!

  • Matthew 23:32
    American Standard Version
    • 32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

  • Matthew 23:32
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 32 And ye fill ye up the measure of your fathers!

  • Matthew 23:32
    King James Version
    • 32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

  • Matthew
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2022
    • 23:32 it-2 20

  • Matthew
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 23:32 ad 894

  • Matthew
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 23:32

      Insight, Volume 2, p. 20

  • Matthew Study Notes—Chapter 23
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 23:32

      fill up the measure of your forefathers: Or “finish off the works that your forefathers started.” The literal meaning of this idiomatic expression is “to fill up a measure that someone else has started to fill.” Jesus is not commanding the Jewish leaders to finish what their ancestors started. Rather, he is using irony in foretelling that they would kill him, as their ancestors killed God’s prophets of former times.

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