Luca 11:48

48 Voi dunque testimoniate delle opere de’ vostri padri e le approvate; perché essi li uccisero, e voi edificate loro de’ sepolcri.

Luca 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,

Luca 11:48 In-Context

46 Ed egli disse: Guai anche a voi, dottori della legge, perché caricate le genti di pesi difficili a portare e voi non toccate quei pesi neppur con un dito!

47 Guai a voi, perché edificate i sepolcri de’ profeti, e i vostri padri li uccisero.

48 Voi dunque testimoniate delle opere de’ vostri padri e le approvate; perché essi li uccisero, e voi edificate loro de’ sepolcri.

49 E per questo la sapienza di Dio ha detto: Io manderò loro dei profeti e degli apostoli; e ne uccideranno alcuni e ne perseguiteranno altri,

50 affinché il sangue di tutti i profeti sparso dalla fondazione del mondo sia ridomandato a questa generazione;