Luke 11:47

47 vae vobis quia aedificatis monumenta prophetarum patres autem vestri occiderunt illos

Luke 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.

Luke 11:47 In-Context

45 respondens autem quidam ex legis peritis ait illi magister haec dicens etiam nobis contumeliam facis

46 at ille ait et vobis legis peritis vae quia oneratis homines oneribus quae portari non possunt et ipsi uno digito vestro non tangitis sarcinas

47 vae vobis quia aedificatis monumenta prophetarum patres autem vestri occiderunt illos

48 profecto testificamini quod consentitis operibus patrum vestrorum quoniam quidem ipsi eos occiderunt vos autem aedificatis eorum sepulchra

49 propterea et sapientia Dei dixit mittam ad illos prophetas et apostolos et ex illis occident et persequentur