Luke 11:47
47 "Woe to you, because you build tombs for the prophets, and it was your ancestors who killed them.
Other Translations of Luke 11:47
King James Version
47 Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
English Standard Version
47 Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed.
The Message
47 "You're hopeless! You build tombs for the prophets your ancestors killed.
New King James Version
47 Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
New Living Translation
47 What sorrow awaits you! For you build monuments for the prophets your own ancestors killed long ago.
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Matthew Henry's Commentary on Luke 11:47
Commentary on Luke 11:37-54
(Read Luke 11:37-54)
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 Christ's sake, and that thy Holy Spirit may rest upon us.