Luke 11:48
So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.
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In The King James Version
In Context
47Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:16but they mocked the messengers of God, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the LORD’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
Psalms 64:8Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.
Matthew 21:35The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
Acts 7:51“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
James 5:10Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, 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 →