Luke 11:48

The Text-Critical English New Testament

So you bear witness to and approve of the works of your fathers, for they killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.

Cross References

Matthew 23:27

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

Matthew 23:31

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

Luke 11:47

Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.

Luke 11:49

That is why the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and some of whom they will persecute.’

Romans 1:32

Though they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things deserve death, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.

James 5:10

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