Luke 11:48

Luke 11:48 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
• New International Version (NIV)So you testify that you approve of what your ancestors did; they killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.
• English Standard Version (ESV)So you are witnesses and you consent to the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs.
• New King James Version (NKJV)In fact, you bear witness that you approve the deeds of your fathers; for they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs.

Context of Luke 11:48

46Then Yeshua said, “Woe to you Torah lawyers as well, for you weigh the people down with burdens hard to carry, yet you yourselves will not touch the burdens with even a finger. 47“Woe to you, for you build the tombs of the prophets whom your own fathers killed! So you are witnesses and approve the deeds of your fathers, for indeed they killed them and you are building their tombs. 49“For this reason also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and emissaries, and some of them they will kill and persecute, 50so that the blood of the prophets shed since the foundation of the world might be required from this generation—

Luke 11:48 word by word

ἄρα μάρτυρές ἐστε καὶ συνευδοκεῖτε τοῖς ἔργοις τῶν πατέρων ὑμῶν· ὅτι αὐτοὶ μὲν ἀπέκτειναν αὐτούς, ὑμεῖς δὲ οἰκοδομεῖτεRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Trulyἄραara · thereforeG686
• ye bear witnessμαρτυρέωmartureō · to testifyG3140
• thatκαίkai · andG2532
• ye allowσυνευδοκέωsuneudokeō · to agree toG4909
• the deedsὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• the deedsἔργονergon · workG2041
• ofπατήρpatēr · fatherG3962
• yourσύsu · youG4771
• forὅτιhoti · that/since: sinceG3754
• theyαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• indeedμένmen · on the other handG3303
• killedἀποκτείνωapokteinō · to killG615
• andδέde · thenG1161
• buildοἰκοδομέωoikodomeō · to buildG3618
• sepulchresμνημεῖονmnēmeion · graveG3419

Cross-references for Luke 11:48

• Joshua 24:22So Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses to yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves Adonai, to worship Him.” “We are witnesses,” they responded.
• Job 15:6Your own mouth condemns you—not I; your own lips testify against you.
• Psalms 64:8But God will shoot them with an arrow— suddenly their wounds will appear.
• Ezekiel 18:19Yet you say, ‘Why does the son not bear the iniquity of the father with him?’ When the son has done what is lawful and right, has kept all My statutes and has done them, he will surely live.
• 2 Chronicles 36:16But they mocked the messengers of God and despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets until the wrath of Adonai rose against His people, until there was no remedy.
• Matthew 21:35But grabbing his servants, the tenants beat up one, killed another, and stoned still another.
• Hebrews 11:35Women received their dead raised back to life; and others were tortured, after not accepting release, so they might obtain a better resurrection.
• James 5:10As an example of suffering and patience, brothers and sisters, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

Commentaries on Luke 11:48

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 48Truly ye bear witness - Ye acknowledge that those of old who killed the prophets were your fathers, and ye are about to show, by your conduct towards me and my apostles, that ye are not degenerated, that ye are as capable of murdering a prophet now, as they were of old.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 47-51Verses 47-51 See the notes at Matthew 23:29-36. Luke 11:49 The wisdom of God - By the “wisdom of God,” here, is undoubtedly meant the Saviour himself. What he immediately says is not written in the Old Testament. Jesus is called “the word of God” John 1:1, because he is the medium by which God “speaks” or makes his will known. He is called “the wisdom of God,” because by him God makes his wisdom known in creation (Colossians 1:13-18 and in redemption 1…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 37-54Verses 37-54 We should all look to our hearts, that they may be cleansed and new-created; and while we attend to the great things of the law and of the gospel, we must not neglect the smallest matter God has appointed. When any wait to catch something out of our mouths, that they may insnare us, O Lord, give us thy prudence and thy patience, and disappoint their evil purposes. Furnish us with such meekness and patience that we may glory in reproaches, for…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 48They killed the prophets: See 1 Kings 19:10, 14; Nehemiah 9:26; Jeremiah 2:30; 26:20–24. Luke presents Jesus as the suffering prophet (Luke 4:22–24). The suffering prophet is a prophet sent by God who is rejected and suffers. Luke shows that Jesus fits this pattern.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 47-4847-48. ye build, &c.--Out of pretended respect and honor, they repaired and beautified the sepulchres of the prophets, and with whining hypocrisy said, "If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets," while all the time they "were witnesses to themselves that they were the children of them that killed the prophets" (Mt 23:29, 30); convicting themselves daily of as exact a resemblance in…Read the comment

Topics related to Luke 11:48

• Hypocrisy
• Jesus, the Christ
• Lawyer
• Minister, Christian
• Pharisees
• Reproof
• Satire
• Self-Righteousness
• Teachers

In the dictionaries

• Allow
• Clean
• Hinder
• Judgment
• Manner
• Ravening
• Seek
• Sign
• Teach
• Tithe

Commentaries on Luke 11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings