Luke 11:48

"So you are witnesses, and you consent to the actions of your ancestors. for they killed them, and you build their tombs.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.

In Context

47"Woe to you! for you are building the tombs of the prophets whom you ancestors killed.

49"For this reason also said the Wisdom of God. ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and some they will persecute;

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Cross References

Matthew 21:35"And the vine-dressers seized his slaves, flogged one, killed another, and stoned a third.

Acts 7:51"Stiff-necked, uncircumcised in heart and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Ghost! As your fathers did, so do you.

James 5:10Take, my brothers, for an example the suffering and the patience of 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 →

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