Luke 11:48

American Standard Version (1901)

So ye are witnesses and consent unto the works of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build [their tombs] .

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  • Josh 24:22 : 22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you Jehovah, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
  • 2 Chr 36:16 : 16 but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Jehovah arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
  • Job 15:6 : 6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
  • Ps 64:8 : 8 So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.
  • Ezek 18:19 : 19 Yet say ye, Wherefore doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? when the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
  • Matt 21:35-38 : 35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them in like manner. 37 But afterward he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. 38 But the husbandmen, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and take his inheritance.
  • Matt 23:31 : 31 Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.
  • Acts 7:51-52 : 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye. 52 Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;
  • Jas 5:10 : 10 Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord.
  • Heb 11:35-38 : 35 Women received their dead by a resurrection: and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: 36 and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: 37 they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated 38 (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.

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    46And he said, Woe unto you lawyers also! for ye load men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

    47Woe unto you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

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    27Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

    28Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

    29Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous,

    30and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

    31Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.

    32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

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    51Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.

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    49Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send unto them prophets and apostles; and [some] of them they shall kill and persecute;

    50that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

    51from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary: yea, I say unto you, it shall be required of this generation.

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    43Woe unto you Pharisees! for ye love the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces.

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    35that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar.

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    14(Ommitted)

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