Luke 11:48
Thus ye testify, that ye acquiesce in the deeds of your fathers; for they slew them, and ye build their sepulchres.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
47Woe to you! who build the sepulchres of the prophets, whom your fathers slew.
Cross References
Matthew 21:35And the cultivators laid hold of his servants, and beat one, and stoned another and one they slew.
Acts 7:51O ye stiff of neck, and uncircumcised in their heart, and in their hearing; ye do always set yourselves against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers, so also ye.
James 5:10For patience in your afflictions, my brethren, take to you the example 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 →