Luke 11:48 “So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They kil…”

Luke 11:48

So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Truely ye beare witnesse, and allowe the deedes of your fathers: for they killed them, and yee build their sepulchres.

Darby Translation

Ye bear witness then, and consent to the works of your fathers; for they killed them, and ye build [their sepulchres].

Young's Literal Translation

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;

Bible in Basic English

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.

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Cross references

“ye bear”

Joshua 24:22 Ezekiel 18:19 Job 15:6 Psalm 64:8

Joshua 24:22 · BSB

Then Joshua told them, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD.” “We are witnesses!” they said.

Ezekiel 18:19 · BSB

Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.

Job 15:6 · BSB

Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.

Psalm 64:8 · BSB

They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.

“for”

2 Chronicles 36:16 James 5:10 Matthew 21:35–38 Hebrews 11:35–38

2 Chronicles 36:16 · BSB

But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.

James 5:10 · BSB

Brothers, as an example of patience in affliction, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

Matthew 21:35–38 · BSB

But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

Hebrews 11:35–38 · BSB

Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused their release, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

Also

Matthew 23:31 Acts 7:51–52

Matthew 23:31 · BSB

So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Acts 7:51–52 · BSB

You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

47Woe to you! For you build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.

49Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.’

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