Luke 11:48

Modern English Version

So you are witnesses and entirely approve the deeds of your fathers, because they killed them, and you build their tombs.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they continued to jest regarding the messengers of God, despising His word and making fun of His prophets until the wrath of the Lord came up against His people, until there was no remedy.

Job 15:6

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

Psalm 64:8

So He will bring ruin to them with their own tongues; all who see them will shake their heads.

Ezekiel 18:19

Yet you say, “Why should the son not bear the punishment of the iniquity of the father?” When the son has done what is lawful and right, and has kept all My statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.

Matthew 23:27

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and of all impurity.

Matthew 23:31

Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Luke 11:47

“Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Luke 11:49

Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’

Romans 1:32

who know the righteous requirement of God, that those who commit such things are worthy of death. They not only do them, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

James 5:10

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

Joshua 24:22

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