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Luke 11:47

Woe to you! who build the sepulchres of the prophets, whom your fathers slew.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

In Context

46And he said: Woe to you also! ye Scribes, who lade men with heavy burdens; yet ye yourselves will not touch those burdens with one of your fingers

48Thus ye testify, that ye acquiesce in the deeds of your fathers; for they slew them, and ye build their sepulchres.

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Cross References

Matthew 23:29Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye build the tombs of the prophets and ye adorn the sepulchres of the righteous;

1 Thessalonians 2:15the persons who slew our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and persecuted their own prophets and us; and they please not God, and are made hostile to all men;

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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