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Luke 11:48

Then do ye testify, and are well pleased with the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye do build their tombs;

Young's Literal Translation

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, because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

49because of this also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets, and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute,

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:16and they are mocking at the messengers of God, and despising His words, and acting deceitfully with His prophets, till the going up of the fury of Jehovah against His people — till there is no healing.

Psalms 64:8And they cause him to stumble, Against them [is] their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.

Matthew 21:35and the husbandmen having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned.

Acts 7:51'Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers — also ye;

James 5:10An example take ye of the suffering of evil, my brethren, and of the patience, the prophets who did speak 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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