Luke 11:47 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. ”

• Luke 11:47 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  See the notes at Matthew 23:29-36 . Luke 11:49 The wisdom of God - By the “wisdom of God,” here, is undoubtedly meant the Saviour himself. What he immediately says is not written in the Ol...

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• Luke 11:47 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (15) Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. (15) Hypocrites honour those saints when they are dead whom they persecute most cruelly when they are al...

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• Luke 11:47 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Condemnation of Pharisees and Scribes. Cf. (though the arrangement is different) Matthew 23*, where the Jerusalem setting is more suitable (perhaps Lk. wishes to make the Jerusalem discourses end...

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• Luke 11:47 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  ye build . ye are building. sepulchres . tombs. See Matthew 23:29 .

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• Luke 11:47 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Ye build the sepulchres - That is, ye rebuild and beautify them. See on Matthew 23:29 (note).

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• Luke 11:47 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. And the Lord said unto him, Now do...

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• Luke 11:47 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Lord's Prayer. The Sign of Jonah 1-4. The Lord's Prayer ( Matthew 6:9-15 ). See on Mt. If the Lord's Prayer was given only once, St. Luke is probably right as to the occasion. His version, how...

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• Luke 11:47 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Ye build the sepulchres of the prophets. — See Note on Matthew 23:29 . St. Luke omits the reference, which we find in St. Matthew, to the “sepulchres of the righteous.”

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• Luke 11:47 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Searching Words for Hypocrites Luke 11:45-54 The minute oral and written rules promulgated by the Hebrew religious leaders overlaid and almost buried under their weight the simple Mosaic code....

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• Luke 11:47 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Watching the Master at prayer, His disciples were inspired with a desire to pray, and requested that they be taught. He responded to them in a fourfold statement. First, He gave them a model. Then He...

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• Luke 11:47 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (42) But, woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue, and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgement, and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. (4...

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• Luke 11:47 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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: f...

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• Luke 11:47 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Ver. 47. See Matthew 23:29 .

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• Luke 11:47 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Valuable Instruction as to Prayer (vs.1-13) As this chapter opens the Lord Jesus was exemplifying the character of dependent communion with His Father (that character that He commended in Mary)....

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• Luke 11:47 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Woes Denounced on That Generation; The Pharisees and Lawyers Reproved.       37 And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine...

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• Luke 11:47 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 47-51. See Poole on " Matthew 23:29 " and following verses to Matthew 23:36 . The Pharisees, like a company of wretched hypocrites, under a pretence of their honouring the memories of the p...

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• Luke 11:47 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Woeful State of Those Whose Light Is Darkness, And Who Therefore Come Under His Woes (11:37-52). But sadly there are those whose eyes turn away from the light. Instead of their eyes being fixe...

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• Luke 11:47 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES Luke 11:37 . Besought .—Simply, “asked” (R.V.). To dine .—Rather, “that He would breakfast with him.” The word used means a noon-day meal = our late breakfast or luncheon. Lu...

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• Luke 11:47 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Luke 11:14-15 . And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake and the people wondered. But some of them said, He casteth out devi...

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• Luke 11:47 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Luke 11:1 . Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. The disciples of John were eminent for fasting and prayer; and though the prayers of the jews were good, yet they were not ex...

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• Luke 11:47 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Ye build the sepulchres of the prophets Building the tombs of the prophets The Jews, whilst honouring the prophets and reproaching their fathers, were flattering themselves that they could neve...

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• Luke 11:47 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Luke 11:1-42 The Lord ' s teaching on the subject of prayer. Again the scene is far away from Jerusalem; no special note of time or place enables us to fix the scene...

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• Luke 11:47 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The insulted lawyer:

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• Luke 11:47 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Thessalonians 2:15 ; Acts 7:51 ; Matthew 23:29-33

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