Devine Scripture

Luke 11:48

Luke chapter 11 · verse 48 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

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.

Context

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

v.48This passage

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

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Hebrews 11:35

    Women received their dead by a resurrection: and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

  • Matthew 23:31

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

  • 2 Chronicles 36:16

    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.

  • Joshua 24:22

    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.

  • James 5:10

    Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord.

  • Acts 7:51

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