Luke 11:47 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) “It is too bad for you! For your forefathers killed the prophets and you build grave monuments to them [i.e., the prophets]. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Woe to you! For you are rebuilding and repairing the tombs of the prophets, whom your fathers killed (destroyed). American Standard Version (1901) Woe unto you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Common English Bible “How terrible for you! You built memorials to the prophets, whom your ancestors killed. Catholic Public Domain Version Woe to you, who build the tombs of the prophets, while it is your fathers who killed them! Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them. |
'It is too bad for you hypocritical experts in the Law of Moses and [you] Pharisees! For you are like whitewashed tombs, used for burial [sites], which appear beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of the bones and decaying flesh of dead people.
So, [by doing this] you are witnesses [against yourselves] that you approve of the deeds of your forefathers, for they killed the prophets and you build grave monuments to them.
“You people are unbending and unrepentant in your hearts and [unwilling to listen with] your ears. You are always resisting [the desires of] the Holy Spirit just like your forefathers did.
who killed the Lord Jesus and the [Old Testament] prophets and also drove us [apostles] out [of Thessalonica and Berea. See Acts 17]. They are not pleasing to God and are hostile to all people,