Luke Chapter 11 verse 47 Holy Bible

ASV Luke 11:47

Woe unto you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
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BBE Luke 11:47

A curse is on you! for you make resting-places for the bodies of the prophets, but your fathers put them to death.
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DARBY Luke 11:47

Woe unto you, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, but your fathers killed them.
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KJV Luke 11:47

Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
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WEB Luke 11:47

Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
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YLT Luke 11:47

`Wo to you, because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 47, 48. - Ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres. There are still existing four singular tombs at the foot of Olivet, in the Valley of Jehoshaphat. Remarkable objects now to the modern traveler at Jerusalem, in all their fresh beauty they would be still more striking in the days of our Lord. The peculiar composite nature of the architecture of these great tombs has decided antiquaries to ascribe the building of these to the days of the later Herods. It is, therefore, not improbable that these conspicuous objects in the landscape, seen from the temple platform, and possibly others like them, which have since perished, were the tombs and sepulchres especially in our Lord's mind when he was speaking to the lawyer, and later at Jerusalem, when he' repeated, with some slight variations, the same awful woe (Matthew 23:29). It was, indeed, a speech of awful and cutting irony, these words of Jesus. "Your fathers," he said, "killed the prophets; you complete their evil work by building tombs for these slain men of God. In other words, you pretend to make amends for the crimes of past generations by this show of ostentatious piety; but if you really differed from your wicked fathers in spirit, if you indeed honored, as you profess to do by this gorgeous tomb-building, the holy men of God whom they slew, would you be acting as you now are doing - trying, as you know you are, to take my life? Is not my life like the lives of those old murdered prophets? are not my words resembling theirs?"

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(47) Ye build the sepulchres of the prophets.--See Note on Matthew 23:29. St. Luke omits the reference, which we find in St. Matthew, to the "sepulchres of the righteous."