Lucas 11:48

48 De modo que sois testigos, y aprobáis las acciones de vuestros padres; porque ellos los mataron y vosotros edificáis sus sepulcros.

Lucas 11:48 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 11:48

Truly ye bear witness, that ye allow the deeds of your
fathers
Or "ye bear witness, and ye allow"; that is, they both witnessed that their fathers killed the prophets, and they consented to what they did, and approved of their actions:

for they indeed killed them;
it must be owned, and not their sons:

and ye build their sepulchres;
which was a bearing and keeping up a testimony against them, and a continuing a remembrance of their crimes; and which looked as though they approved of them, or otherwise they should have been content to have the prophets lie buried in silence, and not erected stately monuments over them, which seemed to be raised more for the honour of those that put them to death, than of the prophets themselves. Or, whereas they did this under specious pretences of disliking their fathers' sins, which yet secretly they loved, and were of the same wicked disposition against the ministers of the word, and which they would quickly show; this discovered their hypocrisy, and confirmed the character Christ had before given of them; for it follows,

Lucas 11:48 In-Context

46 Y El dijo: ¡Ay también de vosotros, intérpretes de la ley!, porque cargáis a los hombres con cargas difíciles de llevar, y vosotros ni siquiera tocáis las cargas con uno de vuestros dedos.

47 ¡Ay de vosotros!, porque edificáis los sepulcros de los profetas, y fueron vuestros padres quienes los mataron.

48 De modo que sois testigos, y aprobáis las acciones de vuestros padres; porque ellos los mataron y vosotros edificáis sus sepulcros.

49 Por eso la sabiduría de Dios también dijo: "Les enviaré profetas y apóstoles, y de ellos, matarán a algunos y perseguirán a otros,

50 para que la sangre de todos los profetas, derramada desde la fundación del mundo, se le cargue a esta generación,