So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.
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So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.
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truly ye beare witnes that ye alowe the dedes of youre fathers for they kylled them and ye bylde their sepulchres.
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Truely ye beare witnesse, and allowe the deedes of your fathers: for they killed them, and yee build their sepulchres.
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Passages linked to Luke 11:48 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Chronicles 36:16 but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
- James 5:10 Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
- Matthew 21:35-38 The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way. But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.’
- Matthew 23:31 Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.
- Acts 7:51-52 “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do. Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
- Hebrews 11:35-38 Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment. They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated— of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
- Joshua 24:22 Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.” They said, “We are witnesses.”
- Ezekiel 18:19 “Yet you say, ‘Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he will surely live.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain When you persecute God’s servants, like mad men, even…
When you persecute God’s servants, like mad men, even as your fathers did, though you color it with a pretence of godliness, yet notwithstanding, in that you beautify the sepulchers of the Prophets, what do you else, but glory in your fathers’ cruelty, and set up monuments (as it were) in glory and triumph of it?
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 48 Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the…
48 Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
Ver. 48. And ye build their sepulchres] And so ye set up the trophies of your fathers’ cruelty.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain That the blood of all the prophets,.... The same…
That the blood of all the prophets,.... The same with "all the righteous blood", or the blood of all the righteous men, in Mat 23:35,
which was shed from the foundation of the world: for there were prophets from the beginning, which prophesied of Christ, Luk 1:70 and whose blood was shed very early; for Abel, the son of the first man, and who was the first whose blood was shed, was not only a righteous man, but a prophet; for by the sacrifice which he offered up, he gave a prophetical hint of the sacrifice of Christ, in that he spoke beforehand of it, as being dead he yet speaks: and now the Lord was about to send apostolical prophets, whom the Jews would slay, and he would suffer them to slay, that so the blood of all the former ones,
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may be required of this generation; and they be punished for it: just as in Babylon will be found, when God makes inquisition for blood, as he sooner or later always does, the blood of the prophets and saints, and of all that are slain upon earth, ever since Rome papal has been in power, Rev 18:24.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Whom they killed, ye build their sepulchres - Just…
Whom they killed, ye build their sepulchres - Just like them pretending great reverence for the ancient prophets, while ye destroy those whom God sends to yourselves. Ye therefore bear witness by this deep hypocrisy that ye are of the very same spirit with them.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 48. Truly ye bear witness] Ye acknowledge that…
Verse 48. Truly ye bear witness] Ye acknowledge that those of old who killed the prophets were your fathers, and ye are about to show, by your conduct towards me and my apostles, that ye are not degenerated, that ye are as capable of murdering a prophet now, as they were of old.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Build, &c. See the notes Matthew xxiii. 29. (Witham)
Build, &c. See the notes Matthew xxiii. 29. (Witham)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 48. bear witness...allow] We find the same two words…
48. bear witness...allow] We find the same two words used of St Paul in Act_7:58; Act_8:1. Allow means ‘approve after trial,’ and is derived from allaudare. “The Lord alloweth the righteous,” Psa_11:6 (Prayer-Book Version).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (48) Truly ye bear witness that ye allow.—The better…
(48) Truly ye bear witness that ye allow.—The better MSS. give, Truly are ye witnesses, and ye allow. The word “allow” has, as always in the English Bible, the meaning of “approving of,” “consenting to,” “having pleasure in.” The last phrase is the rendering of the same Greek word in Rom_1:32, and would express the meaning here. The derivation of “allow” from the French allouer and the Latin adlaudare, shows this to be the true sense. On the rest of the verse, see Note on Mat_23:31.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 11:48 They killed the prophets: See 1 Kgs 19:10,…
11:48 They killed the prophets: See 1 Kgs 19:10, 14; Neh 9:26; Jer 2:30; 26:20-24. Luke portrays Jesus as “The Suffering Prophet” Luke 4:22-24.
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