And say ... - This they professed to say by rebuilding their tombs. They also, probably, publicly expressed their disapprobation of the conduct of their fathers. All this, in building and ornamenting tombs, was a profession of extraordinary piety. Our Lord showed them it was mere pretence.
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Matthew 23:30
30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.