Lukas 11:48

48 So bezeugt ihr und willigt in eurer Väter Werke; denn sie töteten sie, so baut ihr ihre Gräber.

Lukas 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,

Lukas 11:48 In-Context

46 Er aber sprach: Und weh auch euch Schriftgelehrten! denn ihr beladet die Menschen mit unerträglichen Lasten, und ihr rührt sie nicht mit einem Finger an.

47 Weh euch! denn ihr baut der Propheten Gräber; eure Väter aber haben sie getötet.

48 So bezeugt ihr und willigt in eurer Väter Werke; denn sie töteten sie, so baut ihr ihre Gräber.

49 Darum spricht die Weisheit Gottes: Ich will Propheten und Apostel zu ihnen senden, und derselben werden sie etliche töten und verfolgen;

50 auf daß gefordert werde von diesem Geschlecht aller Propheten Blut, das vergossen ist, seit der Welt Grund gelegt ist,