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Luke 11:47 KJV
Luke · chapter 11 · verse 47
Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.Luke 11:47 · King James Version
Luke 11:47 in context
45Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.
46And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
47Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
48Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
49Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- sepulchresmnēmeionany visible object for preserving or recalling the memory of any person or thing, a…G3419 →
- prophetsprophētēsin Greek writings, an interpreter of oracles or of other hidden things, one who, moved by…G4396 →
- fatherspatērgenerator or male ancestor, either the nearest ancestor father of the corporeal nature…G3962 →
- killedapokteinōto kill in any way whatever, to destroy, to allow to perish, metaph. to extinguish…G615 →
- buildoikodomeōto build a house, erect a building, to build , to restore by building, to rebuild…G3618 →
- Woeouaialas, woeG3759 →
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Christ here says many of those things to a Pharisee and his guests, in a private conversation at table, which he afterwards said in a public discourse in the temple (Mt. 23); for what he said in public and private was of a piece.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 37-54