Luke 11:48
Clearly, you are testifying that you consent to the actions of your fathers, because even though they killed them, you build their sepulchers.
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In The King James Version
In Context
47Woe to you, who build the tombs of the prophets, while it is your fathers who killed them!
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:16But they ridiculed the messengers of God, and they gave little weight to his words, and they mocked the prophets, until the fury of the Lord ascended against his people, and there was no remedy.
Psalms 64:8You stir up the depths of the sea, the noise of its waves. The nations will be troubled,
Matthew 21:35And the farmers apprehended his servants; they struck one, and killed another, and stoned yet another.
Acts 7:51Stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you ever resist the Holy Spirit. Just as your fathers did, so also do you do.
James 5:10My brothers, consider the Prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord, as an example of departing from evil, of labor, and of patience.
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 →