Luke 11:48
Consequently, ye testify and approve the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchers.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
47Woe to you! Because ye build the sepulchers of the prophets, but your fathers killed them.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:16But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
Psalms 64:8So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them. All who see them shall wag the head.
Matthew 21:35And the farmers having taken his bondmen, they beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
Acts 7:51Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers, ye also.
James 5:10Take an example, my brothers, of evil-suffering and longsuffering, the prophets who spoke in the name of Lord.
Matthew Henry on Luke 11:38-54
Woes Denounced on That Generation; The Pharisees and Lawyers Reproved. 37 And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat. 38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner. 39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. 40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also? 41… Read the whole commentary →