Luke 11:47
Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
KJV
οὐαὶ ὑμῖν, ὅτι οἰκοδομεῖτε τὰ μνημεῖα τῶν προφητῶν, καὶ οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν ἀπέκτειναν αὐτούς.
Greek NT
Væ vobis, qui ædificatis monumenta prophetarum : patres autem vestri occiderunt illos.
Vulgate
Woe unto you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
ASV
Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μνημεῖον
mnemeion
noun · 37×
οἰκοδομέω
oikodomeo
verb · 41×
οὐαί
ouai
noun · 46×
πατήρ
pater
noun · 412×
προφήτης
prophetes
noun · 145×
ἀποκτείνω
apokteino
verb · 74×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§579This principle of integral observance of the Law not only in letter but in spirit was dear to the Pharisees. By giving Israel this principle they had led many Jews of Jesus' time to an extreme religious zeal.334 This zeal, were it not to lapse into "hypocritical" casuistry,335 could only prepare the People for the unprecedented intervention of God through the perfect fulfilment…
2. See by how many things He has warned them. He said, You condemn your fathers, in that you say, We would not have been partakers with them; and this is no little thing to shame them. He said, While ye condemn them, you do worse things, even ye yourselves; and this is sufficient to cover them with disgrace. He said, These things shall not be without punishment; and hence he im…
Cross-references
- 1Thess 2:15 — Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
- Acts 7:51 — Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
- Acts 7:52 — Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
- Matt 5:12 — Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
- Matt 23:29 — Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
- Matt 23:29 — Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,