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Luke 11:47–48

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47“aWoe to you! For you build the 1tombs of the prophets, but your fathers killed them.

48“So you are witnesses and approve the deeds of your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you build their tombs.

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Footnotes

  1. 1Or monuments to

Cross references

  1. aMatt 23:29ff

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed. So you are witnesses and you consent to the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“Woe to you, because you build tombs for the prophets, and it was your ancestors who killed them. So you testify that you approve of what your ancestors did; they killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Therefore, you are witnesses that you approve the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their monuments.

NLTNew Living Translation

What sorrow awaits you! For you build monuments for the prophets your own ancestors killed long ago. But in fact, you stand as witnesses who agree with what your ancestors did. They killed the prophets, and you join in their crime by building the monuments!

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Woe to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them! As a result you are witnesses, and you approve of the deeds of your fathers, because they killed them and you build their tombs!

KJV 1900King James Version

Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.