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Luke 11:47

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and [it was] your fathers [who] killed them.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Woe unto you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Woe unto you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Woe to you! for ye build the sepulchers of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Woe unto you, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, but your fathers killed them.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Alas for you! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers slew them!
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— 'Woe to you, because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Wo be to you: for ye builde the sepulchres of the Prophetes, and your fathers killed them.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Woe vnto you: for ye build the sepulchres of the Prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Woe to you! for you build the tombs of prophets whom your fathers killed.
John Etheridge Peshitta-Aramaic NT (1849)
— Woe to you! for you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed:
James Murdock Peshitta-Aramaic NT (1852)
— Woe to you! who build the sepulchres of the prophets, whom your fathers slew.

Strong's Numbers & Red-LettersGreek New TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Woe 3759
{3759} Prime
οὐαί
ouai
{oo-ah'-ee}
A primary excamation of grief; 'woe'.
unto you! 5213
{5213} Prime
ὑμῖν
humin
{hoo-min'}
Irregular dative case of G5210; to (with or by) you.
for 3754
{3754} Prime
ὅτι
hoti
{hot'-ee}
Neuter of G3748 as conjugation; demonstrative that (sometimes redundant); causatively because.
ye build 3618
{3618} Prime
οἰκοδομέω
oikodomeo
{oy-kod-om-eh'-o}
From the same as G3619; to be a house builder, that is, construct or (figuratively) confirm.
z5719
<5719> Grammar
Tense - Present (See G5774)
Voice - Active (See G5784)
Mood - Indicative (See G5791)
Count - 3019
the x3588
(3588) Complement

ho
{ho}
The masculine, feminine (second) and neuter (third) forms, in all their inflections; the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom).
sepulchres 3419
{3419} Prime
μνημεῖον
mnemeion
{mnay-mi'-on}
From G3420; a remembrance, that is, cenotaph (place of interment).
of the x3588
(3588) Complement

ho
{ho}
The masculine, feminine (second) and neuter (third) forms, in all their inflections; the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom).
prophets, 4396
{4396} Prime
προφήτης
prophetes
{prof-ay'-tace}
From a compound of G4253 and G5346; a foreteller ('prophet'); by analogy an inspired speaker; by extension a poet.
and 1161
{1161} Prime
δέ
de
{deh}
A primary particle (adversative or continuative); but, and, etc.
your 5216
{5216} Prime
ὑμῶν
humon
{hoo-mone'}
Genitive case of G5210; of (from or concerning) you.
fathers 3962
{3962} Prime
πατήρ
pater
{pat-ayr'}
Apparently a primary word; a 'father' (literally or figuratively, near or more remote).
killed 615
{0615} Prime
ἀποκτείνω
apokteino
{ap-ok-ti'-no}
From G0575 and κτείνω [[kteino]] (to slay); to kill outright; figuratively to destroy.
z5656
<5656> Grammar
Tense - Aorist (See G5777)
Voice - Active (See G5784)
Mood - Indicative (See G5791)
Count - 2319
them. 846
{0846} Prime
αὐτός
autos
{ow-tos'}
From the particle αὖ [[au]] (perhaps akin to the base of G0109 through the idea of a baffling wind; backward); the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the compound of G1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Luke 11:47-48

_ _ ye build, etc. — 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” (Matthew 23:29, Matthew 23:30); convicting themselves daily of as exact a resemblance in spirit and character to the very classes over whose deeds they pretended to mourn, as child to parent.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Luke 11:37-54.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Luke 11:47

(15) Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

(15) Hypocrites honour those saints when they are dead whom they persecute most cruelly when they are alive.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
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Matthew 23:29-33 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, ... [Ye] serpents, [ye] generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
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.
1 Thessalonians 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:
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Mt 23:29. Ac 7:51. 1Th 2:15.

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