If we had been in the days ... — There is no necessity for assuming that the Pharisees did not mean what they said. It was simply an instance of the unconscious hypocrisy of which every generation has more or less been guilty, when it has condemned the wrong-doing of the past — its bigotry, or luxury, or greed — and then has yielded to the same sins itself.
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Matthew 23:30
30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.