Luke 11:48

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Summary

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

Ye bear

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Bible References

Ye bear

Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves the Lord, to serve Him.” And they said, “We are witnesses.”

“Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;
And your own lips testify against you.

So they will make him stumble;

Their own tongue is against them;

All who see them will shake the head.

“Yet you say, ‘Why should the son not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity?’ When the son has practiced justice and righteousness and has observed all My statutes and done them, he shall surely live.

For

but they continually mocked the messengers of God, despised His words and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against His people, until there was no remedy.

The vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third.

Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection;

As an example, brethren, of suffering and patience, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.