Luke 11:48
Therefore you are witnesses and you consent unto the works of your fathers: because they slew them, and you build.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
47Woe unto you! because you build the sepulchers of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Cross References
Matthew 21:35and the husbandmen taking his servants, beat one, and slew one, and stoned another.
Acts 7:51Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Ghost; as your fathers did, so do ye.
James 5:10Brethren, receive the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord as an example of suffering evil and longsuffering.
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 →