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Luke 11:48

So ye are witnesses and consent unto the works of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build their tombs.

Revised Version 1895

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

47Woe unto you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

49Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send unto them prophets and apostles; and some of them they shall kill and persecute;

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:16but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

Psalms 64:8So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: all that see them shall wag the head.

Matthew 21:35And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

Acts 7:51Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

James 5:10Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake 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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