147 The effect of what the experts in the law were doing was to deny the message of the prophets and thus honor their death by supporting those who had sought their removal. The charge that this is what previous generations did shows the problem is chronic. As T. W. Manson said, the charge here is “The only prophet you honor is a dead prophet!”( The Sayings of Jesus, 101).
148 Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

In other versions

Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed.

“Woe to you, because you build tombs for the prophets, and it was your ancestors who killed them.

“Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

What sorrow awaits you! For you build monuments for the prophets your own ancestors killed long ago.

Woe to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them!

Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

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