Luke 11:47 - Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁷ Woe to you, who build the tombs of the prophets, while it is your fathers who killed them!

More versions

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

English Standard Version 2016

⁴⁷ Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed.

Luke 11:47 Cross References

Matthew 23:27

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed sepulchers, which outwardly appear brilliant to men, yet truly, inside, they are filled with the bones of the dead and with all filth.

Luke 11:48

Clearly, you are testifying that you consent to the actions of your fathers, because even though they killed them, you build their sepulchers.

Acts 7:51

Stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you ever resist the Holy Spirit. Just as your fathers did, so also do you do.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who also killed both the Lord Jesus, and the Prophets, and who have persecuted us. But they do not please God, and so they are adversaries to all men.