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Luke 11:47
Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them.
Luke 11:47 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Luke 11:47 in other translations
Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.
Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
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In context
44 Woe to you, because you are as sepulchres that appear not: and men that walk over are not aware.
45 And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him: Master, in saying these things, thou reproachest us also.
46 But he said: Woe to you lawyers also, because you load men with burdens which they cannot bear and you yourselves touch not the packs with one of your fingers.
47 Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them.
48 Truly you bear witness that you consent to the doings of your fathers. For they indeed killed them: and you build their sepulchres.
49 For this cause also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets and apostles: and some of them they will kill and persecute.
50 That the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,
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