Luke 11:48
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Truly you bear witness that you consent to the doings of your fathers. For they indeed killed them: and you build their sepulchres.

ye bear.

Joshua 24:22 And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses, that you yourselves have chosen you the Lord to serve him. And they answered: We are witnesses.

Job 15:6 Thy own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I: and thy own lips shall answer thee.

Psalm 64:8 And their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them were troubled;

Ezekiel 18:19 And you say: Why hath not the son borne the iniquity of his father? Verily, because the son hath wrought judgment and justice, hath kept all my commandments, and done them, living, he shall live.

for.

2 Chronicles 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused the prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, and there was no remedy.

Matthew 21:35-38 And the husbandmen laying hands on his servants, beat one and killed another and stoned another. . . .

Hebrews 11:35-38 Women received their dead raised to life again. But others were racked, not accepting deliverance, that they might find a better resurrection. . . .

James 5:10 Take, my brethren, for example of suffering evil, of labour and patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

Context
Woes to Religious Leaders
47Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them. 48Truly you bear witness that you consent to the doings of your fathers. For they indeed killed them: and you build their sepulchres. 49For 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.…
Cross References
Matthew 23:27
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but within are full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness.

Luke 11:47
Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them.

Luke 11:49
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.

Romans 1:32
Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death: and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.

Lexicon
So
ἄρα (ara)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 686: Then, therefore, since. Probably from airo; a particle denoting an inference more or less decisive.

you are
ἐστε (este)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

witnesses [who]
μάρτυρές (martyres)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 3144: A witness (judicially) or figuratively (genitive case); by analogy, a 'martyr'.

consent
συνευδοκεῖτε (syneudokeite)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 4909: From sun and eudokeo; to think well of in common, i.e. Assent to, feel gratified with.

to the
τοῖς (tois)
Article - Dative Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

deeds
ἔργοις (ergois)
Noun - Dative Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 2041: From a primary ergo; toil; by implication, an act.

of
τῶν (tōn)
Article - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

fathers:
πατέρων (paterōn)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'.

They
αὐτοὶ (autoi)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

killed
ἀπέκτειναν (apekteinan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 615: To put to death, kill; fig: I abolish. From apo and kteino; to kill outright; figuratively, to destroy.

[the prophets],
αὐτοὺς (autous)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

and
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

you
ὑμεῖς (hymeis)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

build [their tombs].
οἰκοδομεῖτε (oikodomeite)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 3618: From the same as oikodome; to be a house-builder, i.e. Construct or confirm.


Additional Translations
So you are witnesses who consent to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.

So you are witnesses and consent to the works of your fathers; for indeed they killed them, and you build their tombs.

Truly you bear witness that you allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and you build their sepulchers.

So ye are witnesses and consent unto the works of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build their tombs .

Ye bear witness then, and consent to the works of your fathers; for they killed them, and ye build [their sepulchres].

So ye are witnesses and consent unto the works of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build their tombs.

Truly ye bear testimony, that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchers.

It follows that you bear testimony to the actions of your forefathers and that you fully approve thereof. They slew, you build.

So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.

Then do ye testify, and are well pleased with the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye do build their tombs;
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