Luke 11:48 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴⁸ So ye are witnesses and consent unto the works of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye 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 mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

Job 15:6

Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

Psalm 64:8

So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.

Ezekiel 18:19

Yet say ye, Wherefore doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.

Matthew 23:27

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

Matthew 23:31

Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.

Luke 11:47

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

Luke 11:49

Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send unto them prophets and apostles; and some of them they shall kill and persecute;

Romans 1:32

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they which practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.

James 5:10

Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord.

Joshua 24:22

And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.