Luke 11:48
Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
Luke 11:48 in other translations
| BSB | So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs. |
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| WEB | So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs. |
| ASV | So ye are witnesses and consent unto the works of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build their tombs. |
| YLT | 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; |
| DARBY | Ye bear witness then, and consent to the works of your fathers; for they killed them, and ye build their sepulchres. |
| BBE | So you are witnesses and give approval to the work of your fathers; for they put them to death and you make their last resting-places. |
| Webster | Truly ye bear testimony, that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchers. |
What does Luke 11:48 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 11:47-48
47-48. ye build, &c.--Out of pretended respect and honor, they repaired and beautified the sepulchres of the prophets, and with whining hypocrisy said, "If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets," while all the time they "were witnesses to themselves that they were the children of them that killed the prophets" (Mt 23:29, 30); convicting…
Barnes' Notes
(f) "ye allow" Eze 18:19 (g) "they indeed killed" He 11:35,37
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 11:37-54
We should all look to our hearts, that they may be cleansed and new-created; and while we attend to the great things of the law and of the gospel, we must not neglect the smallest matter God has appointed. When any wait to catch something out of our mouths, that they may insnare us, O Lord, give us thy prudence and thy patience, and disappoint their evil purposes. Furnish us with such meekness and patience that we…
Luke 11:48 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Luke 11:48
- James 5:10
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
- 2 Chronicles 36:16
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
- Matthew 23:31
Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
- Matthew 21:35-38
And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
- Acts 7:51-52
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
- Hebrews 11:35-38
Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
- Ezekiel 18:19
Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
- Joshua 24:22
And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the Lord, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jos 24:22; Job 15:6; Ps 64:8; Eze 18:19
for.
2Ch 36:16; Mt 21:35-38; Heb 11:35-38; Jas 5:10
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Context
- Luke 11:47
Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
- Luke 11:48
Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
- Luke 11:49
Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
Luke 11:48 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | De cierto dais testimonio que consentís en los hechos de vuestros padres; porque á la verdad ellos los mataron, mas vosotros edificáis sus sepulcros. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Vous rendez donc témoignage aux œuvres de vos pères et vous y prenez plaisir; car eux, ils les ont tués, et vous, vous bâtissez leurs tombeaux. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Also gebet ihr Zeugnis und stimmet den Werken eurer Väter bei; denn sie haben sie getötet, ihr aber bauet ihre Grabmäler. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Profecto testificamini quod consentitis operibus patrum vestrorum: quoniam ipsi quidem eos occiderunt, vos autem ædificatis eorum sepulchra. |