Luke 11:48
You are actually witnesses to your ancestors’ acts and show your approval of them, because, while they killed the prophets, you build tombs for them.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
In Context
47Alas for you! You build the monuments of the prophets whom your ancestors killed.
49That is why the wisdom of God said – ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles,
Cross References
Psalms 64:8For their tongue he will bring them to ruin, all will shudder with horror at the sight of them.
Matthew 21:35But the tenants seized his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
Acts 7:51Stubborn people, heathen in heart and ears, you are for ever resisting the Holy Spirit; your ancestors did it, and you are doing it still.
James 5:10Friends, as an example of the patient endurance of suffering, 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 →