Lucas 11:47

Listen to Lucas 11:47
47 Ai de v贸s! porque edificais os t煤mulos dos profetas, e vossos pais os mataram.

Lucas 11:47 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 11:47

Woe unto you
Meaning particularly the lawyers or Scribes, together with the Pharisees, and even the whole body of the people, who in general were of the cast and complexion here described:

for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets;
(See Gill on Matthew 23:29)

and your fathers killed them;
the prophets; "or whom your fathers killed", as read the Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions; the one put them to death, and the other erected stately monuments over them, or adorned them; and yet both had the same malignant spirit against the faithful servants and messengers of God; and which showed their great hypocrisy.

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Lucas 11:47 In-Context

45 Disse-lhe, ent茫o, um dos doutores da lei: Mestre, quando dizes isso, tamb茅m nos afrontas a n贸s.
46 Ele, por茅m, respondeu: Ai de v贸s tamb茅m, doutores da lei! porque carregais os homens com fardos dif铆ceis de suportar, e v贸s mesmos nem ainda com um dos vossos dedos tocais nesses fardos.
47 Ai de v贸s! porque edificais os t煤mulos dos profetas, e vossos pais os mataram.
48 Assim sois testemunhas e aprovais as obras de vossos pais; porquanto eles os mataram, e v贸s lhes edificais os t煤mulos.
49 Por isso diz tamb茅m a sabedoria de Deus: Profetas e ap贸stolos lhes mandarei; e eles matar茫o uns, e perseguir茫o outros;
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