Luke 11:48
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.
In context
46 “Woe to you as well, experts in the law!” He replied. “You weigh men down with heavy burdens, but you yourselves will not lift a finger to lighten their load.
47 Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.
48 So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.
49 Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.’
50 As a result, this generation will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the foundation of the world,
Luke 11:48 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.
- KJV King James Version
- Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
- WEB World English Bible
- So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.
- ASV American Standard Version
- So ye are witnesses and consent unto the works of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build their tombs.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Then do ye testify, and are well pleased with the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye do build their tombs;
- DBY Darby Translation
- Ye bear witness then, and consent to the works of your fathers; for they killed them, and ye build [their sepulchres].
- WBS Webster Bible
- Truly ye bear testimony, that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchers.