Luke 11:48

The Passion Translation

In fact, by erecting monuments to the prophets your ancestors killed, you demonstrate your agreement with those murderers and bear witness to their deeds. You’re no better than they!

Cross References

Psalm 64:8

Staggering backward, they will be destroyed by the very ones they spoke against. All who see this will view them with scorn.

Ezekiel 18:19

“Yet you ask, ‘Why doesn’t the child bear his father’s guilt?’ If a person lives an honest and upright life and keeps my laws and faithfully follows my teachings, he will most certainly live.

Matthew 23:27

“Great sorrow awaits you religious scholars and Pharisees—frauds and imposters! You are nothing more than tombs painted over with white paint—tombs that look shining and beautiful on the outside but filled with rotting corpses on the inside.

Matthew 23:31

But your words and deeds testify that you are just like them and prove that you are indeed the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

Luke 11:47

What hypocrites! You build monuments to honor the prophets of old, yet it was your murdering ancestors who killed them. The only prophet you’ll honor is a dead one!

Luke 11:49

That is why God’s wisdom is proclaiming: ‘I will send to them apostles and prophets though some they will murder and others they will persecute.’

Romans 1:32

Although they are fully aware of God’s laws and proper order, and knowing that those who do all of these things deserve to die, yet they still go headlong into darkness, encouraging others to do the same and applauding them when they do!

James 5:10

My brothers and sisters, take the prophets as your mentors. They have prophesied in the name of the Lord and it brought them great sufferings, yet they patiently endured.

Joshua 24:22

Then Joshua said to them, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve Yahweh.” “Yes, we are witnesses,” they responded.