Lukas 11:48

48 Zo getuigt gij dan, dat gij mede behagen hebt aan de werken uwer vaderen; want zij hebben ze gedood, en gij bouwt hun graven.

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 Doch Hij zeide: Wee ook u, wetgeleerden! want gij belast de mensen met lasten, zwaar om te dragen, en zelven raakt gij die lasten niet aan met een van uw vingeren.

47 Wee u, want gij bouwt de graven der profeten, en uw vaders hebben dezelve gedood.

48 Zo getuigt gij dan, dat gij mede behagen hebt aan de werken uwer vaderen; want zij hebben ze gedood, en gij bouwt hun graven.

49 Waarom ook de wijsheid Gods zegt: Ik zal profeten en apostelen tot hen zenden, en van die zullen zij sommigen doden, en sommigen zullen zij uitjagen;

50 Opdat van dit geslacht afgeeist worde het bloed van al de profeten, dat vergoten is van de grondlegging der wereld af.