Luke 11:48

It follows that you bear testimony to the actions of your forefathers and that you fully approve thereof. They slew, you build.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

47Alas for you! for you repair the tombs of the Prophets, whom your forefathers killed.

49"For this reason also the Wisdom of God has said, `I will send Prophets and Apostles to them, of whom they will kill some and persecute others,'

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Cross References

Matthew 21:35but the vine-dressers seized the servants, and one they cruelly beat, one they killed, one they pelted with stones.

Acts 7:51"O stiff-necked men, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you also are continually at strife with the Holy Spirit--just as your forefathers were.

James 5:10In illustration, brethren, of persecution patiently endured take the Prophets who have spoken as messengers from 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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