Matthew 23:32

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Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Then in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.”

Now behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to add still more to the burning anger of the Lord against Israel.

I said, “What is it?” And he said, “This is the

ephah going forth.” Again he said, “This is their appearance in all the land

We have sinned

like our fathers,

We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.

Herod also added this to them all: he locked John up in prison.