Luke 11:48
Truly you bear witness that you consent to the doings of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and you build their sepulchres.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
47Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:16But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused the prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, and there was no remedy.
Psalms 64:8and God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds:
Matthew 21:35And the husbandmen laying hands on his servants, beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
Acts 7:51You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you also.
James 5:10Take, my brethren, for an example of suffering evil, of labour and patience, the prophets, who spoke in the name of the 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 →