Luke 11:47
Good News Translation
How terrible for you! You make fine tombs for the prophets--the very prophets your ancestors murdered.

New Revised Standard Version
Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors killed.

Contemporary English Version
Yes, you are really in for trouble. You build monuments to honor the prophets your own people murdered long ago.

New American Bible
Woe to you! You build the memorials of the prophets whom your ancestors killed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them.

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Matthew 23:29-33 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just, . . .

Acts 7:51 You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also.

1 Thessalonians 2:15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men;

Context
Woes to Religious Leaders
46But he said: Woe to you lawyers also, because you load men with burdens which they cannot bear and you yourselves touch not the packs with one of your fingers. 47Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them. 48Truly you bear witness that you consent to the doings of your fathers. For they indeed killed them: and you build their sepulchres.…
Cross References
Matthew 23:27
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but within are full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness.

Matthew 23:29
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just,

Luke 11:48
Truly you bear witness that you consent to the doings of your fathers. For they indeed killed them: and you build their sepulchres.

Luke 11:46
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