Wherefore] This verse may be in a parenthesis, for the 32 verse depends on the 30. ye be witnesses] Ye speak truer then ye intend. unto your selves] Or, against your selves, as Mark 6:11. Luke 9:5. that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets] For ye called them your fathers, v. 30. and ye may possibly tread in their steps, and are in the mean space no better then they were, as ye will shortly shew and discover, though now ye conceal it; for even now ye are inwardly plotting what they practised. Ye honour the dead, because they cannot trouble you; but the surviving, who teach the same doctrine they did, ye hate as extremely as ever your fathers did them.