Luke 11:47 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁴⁷ “It is too bad for you! For your forefathers killed the prophets and you build grave monuments to them [i.e., the prophets].

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁷ Woe to you! For you are rebuilding and repairing the tombs of the prophets, whom your fathers killed (destroyed).

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁴⁷ “How terrible for you! You built memorials to the prophets, whom your ancestors killed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁷ 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

⁴⁷ Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them.

Luke 11:47 Cross References

Matthew 23:27

'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.

Luke 11:48

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.

Acts 7:51

“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.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

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,