Luke 11:47 - Easy To Read Version It will be bad for you, because you build tombs {\cf2\super [213]} for the prophets. {\cf2\super [214]} But these are the same prophets that your fathers {\cf2\super [215]} killed! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Woe to you! For you are rebuilding and repairing the tombs of the prophets, whom your fathers killed (destroyed). American Standard Version (1901) Woe unto you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Common English Bible “How terrible for you! You built memorials to the prophets, whom your ancestors killed. Catholic Public Domain Version Woe to you, who build the tombs of the prophets, while it is your fathers who killed them! Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them. |
“It will be bad for you teachers of the law and Pharisees. {\cf2\super [347]} You are hypocrites. {\cf2\super [348]} You are like tombs {\cf2\super [349]} that are painted white. The outside of those tombs looks fine. But inside, the tombs are full of the bones of dead people. And all kinds of unclean things are inside there.
And now you show all people that you agree with what your fathers did. They killed the prophets, and you build tombs for the prophets!
\{Then Stephen said,\} “You stubborn Jewish leaders! You have not given your hearts to God! You won’t listen to him! You are always against what the Holy Spirit {\cf2\super [147]} is trying to tell you. Your ancestors did this, and you are just like them!
Those Jews killed the Lord Jesus. And they killed the prophets. {\cf2\super [9]} And those Jews forced us to leave that country (Judea). God is not pleased with them. They are against all people.