Luke 11:48
So you testify that you approve of the deeds of your ancestors, because they killed the prophets and you build their tombs!
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- Josh 24:22 : 22 Joshua said to the people,“Do you agree to be witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to worship the LORD?” They replied,“We are witnesses!”
- 2 Chr 36:16 : 16 But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his warnings, and ridiculed his prophets. Finally the LORD got very angry at his people and there was no one who could prevent his judgment.
- Job 15:6 : 6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you.
- Ps 64:8 : 8 Their slander will bring about their demise. All who see them will shudder,
- Ezek 18:19 : 19 “Yet you say,‘Why should the son not suffer for his father’s iniquity?’ When the son does what is just and right, and observes all my statutes and carries them out, he will surely live.
- Matt 21:35-38 : 35 But the tenants seized his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they treated them the same way. 37 Finally he sent his son to them, saying,‘They will respect my son.’ 38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves,‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and get his inheritance!’
- Matt 23:31 : 31 By saying this you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
- Acts 7:51-52 : 51 “You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did! 52 Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold long ago the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become!
- Jas 5:10 : 10 As an example of suffering and patience, brothers and sisters, take the prophets who spoke in the Lord’s name.
- Heb 11:35-38 : 35 and women received back their dead raised to life. But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life. 36 And others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, sawed apart, murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treated 38 (the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.
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46 But Jesus replied,“Woe to you experts in religious law as well! You load people down with burdens difficult to bear, yet you yourselves refuse to touch the burdens with even one of your fingers!
47 Woe to you! You build the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors killed.
- Matt 23:27-326 verses81%
27 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.
28 In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.
30 And you say,‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have participated with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’
31 By saying this you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
32 Fill up then the measure of your ancestors!
- Acts 7:51-522 verses76%
51 “You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!
52 Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold long ago the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become!
- Luke 11:49-513 verses75%
49 For this reason also the wisdom of God said,‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’
50 so that this generation may be held accountable for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world,
51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against this generation.
- Luke 11:43-442 verses72%
43 Woe to you Pharisees! You love the best seats in the synagogues and elaborate greetings in the marketplaces!
44 Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!”
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48 You are witnesses of these things.
- Matt 23:34-363 verses71%
34 “For this reason I am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town,
35 so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
36 I tell you the truth, this generation will be held responsible for all these things!
- John 8:37-415 verses71%
37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.
38 I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!”
39 They answered him,“Abraham is our father!” Jesus replied,“If you are Abraham’s children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.
40 But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!
41 You people are doing the deeds of your father.”Then they said to Jesus,“We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.”
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7 Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said,
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6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, although he does not resist you.
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14 But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a man who was a murderer be released to you.
15 You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!
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15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us severely. They are displeasing to God and are opposed to all people,
- Matt 23:3-42 verses67%
3 Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach.
4 They tie up heavy loads, hard to carry, and put them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing even to lift a finger to move them.
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8 So they seized him, killed him, and threw his body out of the vineyard.
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8 Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance, and don’t begin to say to yourselves,‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!
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29 Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads and saying,“Aha! You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,
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11 I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.
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26 “Woe to you when all people speak well of you, for their ancestors did the same things to the false prophets.
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38 Look, your house is left to you desolate!
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49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
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13 So the Pharisees objected,“You testify about yourself; your testimony is not true!”
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44 You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
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33 You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.
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9 He also said to them,“You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.
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53 You aren’t greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?”
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6 You have killed many people in this city; you have filled its streets with corpses.’
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2 No! You plan how to do what is unjust; you deal out violence in the earth.
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30 The God of our forefathers raised up Jesus, whom you seized and killed by hanging him on a tree.
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12 Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.
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5 “As for your ancestors, where are they? And did the prophets live forever?
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5 But you say,‘If someone tells his father or mother,“Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,”