Luke 11:48

KJV1611 – Modern English

Truly you bear witness that you approve the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs.

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  • Josh 24:22 : 22 And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD, 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 misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
  • Job 15:6 : 6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I; yes, your own lips testify against you.
  • Ps 64:8 : 8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves; all who see them shall flee away.
  • Ezek 18:19 : 19 Yet you say, ‘Why? Does not the son bear the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done what is lawful and right, and has kept all My statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.
  • Matt 21:35-38 : 35 And the vine dressers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first, and they did likewise to them. 37 But last of all, he sent his son to them, saying, They will respect my son. 38 But when the vine dressers saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.
  • Matt 23:31 : 31 Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.
  • Acts 7:51-52 : 51 You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they have killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers,
  • Jas 5:10 : 10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction and of patience.
  • Heb 11:35-38 : 35 Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. 36 Still others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented— 38 of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.

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    46And he said, Woe to you also, lawyers! for you load men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

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

  • Matt 23:27-32
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    27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.

    28Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

    29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,

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

    31Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

    32Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' guilt.

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    51You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

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    49Therefore the wisdom of God also said, I will send 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 to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the temple: truly I say to you, It shall be required of this generation.

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    43Woe to you, Pharisees! for you love the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the markets.

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    48And you are witnesses of these things.

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    34Therefore, indeed, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:

    35that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

    36Truly I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

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    37I know that you are Abraham's descendants; but you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you.

    38I speak what I have seen with my Father: and you do what you have seen with your father.

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    40But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I have heard from God: Abraham did not do this.

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    14But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted to you;

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