Luke 11:48
So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
47Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:16But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.
Psalms 64:8They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.
Matthew 21:35But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
Acts 7:51You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
James 5:10Brothers, as an example of patience in affliction, take 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 →