Luke 11:48

Good News Translation

You yourselves admit, then, that you approve of what your ancestors did; they murdered the prophets, and you build their tombs.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they made fun of God's messengers, ignoring his words and laughing at his prophets, until at last the Lord's anger against his people was so great that there was no escape.

Job 15:6

There is no need for me to condemn you; you are condemned by every word you speak.

Psalm 64:8

He will destroy them because of those words; all who see them will shake their heads.

Ezekiel 18:19

“But you ask, ‘Why shouldn't the son suffer because of his father's sins?’ The answer is that the son did what was right and good. He kept my laws and followed them carefully, and so he will certainly live.

Matthew 23:27

“How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look fine on the outside but are full of bones and decaying corpses on the inside.

Matthew 23:31

So you actually admit that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets!

Luke 11:47

How terrible for you! You make fine tombs for the prophets—the very prophets your ancestors murdered.

Luke 11:49

For this reason the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and messengers; they will kill some of them and persecute others.’

Romans 1:32

They know that God's law says that people who live in this way deserve death. Yet, not only do they continue to do these very things, but they even approve of others who do them.

James 5:10

My friends, remember the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. Take them as examples of patient endurance under suffering.

Joshua 24:22

Joshua told them, “You are your own witnesses to the fact that you have chosen to serve the Lord.” “Yes,” they said, “we are witnesses.”