Luke 11:48
Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
KJV
ἄρα μάρτυρές ἐστε καὶ συνευδοκεῖτε τοῖς ἔργοις τῶν πατέρων ὑμῶν, ὅτι αὐτοὶ μὲν ἀπέκτειναν αὐτοὺς ὑμεῖς δὲ οἰκοδομεῖτε.
Greek NT
Profecto testificamini quod consentitis operibus patrum vestrorum : quoniam ipsi quidem eos occiderunt, vos autem ædificatis eorum sepulchra.
Vulgate
So ye are witnesses and consent unto the works of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build their tombs.
ASV
Truly you bear witness that you consent to the doings of your fathers. For they indeed killed them: and you build their sepulchres.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- μάρτυρές ἐστε — SBLGNT
- μάρτυρές ἐστε — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- μάρτυρεῖτε — Robinson-Pierpont
- οἰκοδομεῖτε — SBLGNT
- οἰκοδομεῖτε — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + αὐτῶν τὰ μνημεῖα — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
3 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…
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:
- 2Chr 36:16 — 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, till there was no remedy.
- 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.
- Jas 5:10 — Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
- Mal 3:7 — Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we ret
- Matt 21:35 — And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
- Matt 23:31 — Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
- Num 32:14 — And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
- Rom 1:32 — Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
- Rom 7:15 — For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.