Luke 11:48
So you are witnesses and you consent to the works of your ancestors, for they indeed killed them and you build their tombs.
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47Woe to you, because you build tombs for the prophets, and it was your ancestors who killed them.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:16But they mocked God's messengers, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no help for it.
Psalms 64:8They will be made to stumble, since their own tongues are against them; 1 all who see them will wag their heads. 1
Matthew 21:35But the vine growers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned still another.
Acts 7:51You people who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; you act just as your fathers acted.
James 5:10Take an example, brothers, from the suffering and patience of the prophets, those 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 →