ye build. ye are building.
sepulchres. tombs. See Matthew 23:29.
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....
(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...
Condemnation of Pharisees and Scribes. Cf. (though the arrangement is different) Matthew 23*, where the Jerusalem setting is more suitable (perha...
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 t...
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 w...
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 p...
Christ is entertained by a Pharisee. He denounces Pharisaic formalism and hypocrisy. For the relation of this discourse to Matthew 23:1-36 , see o...
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 “sepulch...
Searching Words for Hypocrites Luke 11:45-54 The minute oral and written rules promulgated by the Hebrew religious leaders overlaid and almost...
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 fourfo...
(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 t...
Woe unto you ,.... Meaning particularly the lawyers or Scribes, together with the Pharisees, and even the whole body of the people, who in general w...
Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Ver. 47. See Matthew 23:29 .
Valuable Instruction as to Prayer (vs.1-13) As this chapter opens the Lord Jesus was exemplifying the character of dependent communion with His F...
Woes Denounced on That Generation; The Pharisees and Lawyers Reproved. 37 And as...
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...
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 awa...
“Woe to you! for you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. So are you witnesses and consent to the works of your fathers, fo...
CRITICAL NOTES Luke 11:37 . Besought .—Simply, “asked” (R.V.). To dine .—Rather, “that He would breakfast with him.” The word used means a no...
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 wo...
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 p...
Ye build the sepulchres of the prophets Building the tombs of the prophets The Jews, whilst honouring the prophets and reproaching their father...
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...
The insulted lawyer:
Woe unto you! For ye build the sepulchers of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
1 Thessalonians 2:15 ; Acts 7:51 ; Matthew 23:29-33
47 Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.