Luke 11:48 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴⁸ So you are witnesses and approve of the deeds of your ancestors, for they killed them, and you build their tombs.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁸ Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁸ So you bear witness and give your full approval and consent to the deeds of your fathers; for they actually killed them, and you rebuild and repair monuments to them.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁸ So ye are witnesses and consent unto the works of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build their tombs.

Common English Bible

⁴⁸ In this way, you testify that you approve of your ancestors’ deeds. They killed the prophets, and you build memorials!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁸ Clearly, you are testifying that you consent to the actions of your fathers, because even though they killed them, you build their sepulchers.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁸ Truly you bear witness that you consent to the doings of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and you build their sepulchres.

Luke 11:48 Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:16

but they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets until the wrath of the Lord against his people became so great that there was no remedy.

Job 15:6

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

Psalm 64:8

Because of their tongue he will bring them to ruin; all who see them will shake with horror.

Ezekiel 18:19

Yet you say, “Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?” When the son has done what is lawful and right and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live.

Matthew 23:27

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look beautiful but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of all kinds of uncleanness.

Matthew 23:31

Thus you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

Luke 11:47

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

Luke 11:49

For this reason the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’

Romans 1:32

They know God’s decree, that those who practice such things deserve to die, yet they not only do them but even applaud others who practice them.

James 5:10

As an example of suffering and patience, brothers and sisters, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

Joshua 24:22

Then Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord, to serve him.” And they said, “We are witnesses.”