Luke 11:47
Luke 11:47 Meaning and Explanation
“Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.”
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Read Full Chapter →Woe to them: they build the tombs of the prophets their fathers killed.
What Does Luke 11:47 Mean?
The next woe touches the prophets' monuments. The lawyers honored the prophets with handsome sepulchres -- prophets whom their own fathers had silenced and slain.
Jesus exposes the comfortable distance of memorial religion: it is easy to admire dead prophets and resist living ones. The proof was at their table -- a Prophet they were already plotting against. Honoring yesterday's word from God while refusing today's is the oldest form of unbelief.
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What does Luke 11:47 mean?
Woe to them: they build the tombs of the prophets their fathers killed.