Luke 11:48

So then ye bear witness to and approve the deeds of your fathers; because they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres[11:48].

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

In The King James Version

Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.

In Context

47Woe to you! because ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

49Therefore also said the wisdom of God: I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will slay and persecute;

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Cross References

Matthew 21:35And the husbandmen taking his servants, beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

Acts 7:51Stiff-necked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears! Ye always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do ye.

James 5:10Take, my brethren, the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord, for an example of affliction, 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 →

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