Luke 11:48
So you bear witness to and approve of the works of your fathers; for they killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
In Context
47Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.
Cross References
Matthew 21:35But the farmers seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned yet another.
Acts 7:51“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do also.
James 5:10As an example of suffering and patience, my brothers, 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 →