SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:48
De cierto dais testimonio que consentís en los hechos de vuestros padres; porque a la verdad ellos los mataron, mas vosotros edificis sus sepulcros.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Luke 11:48
Verse 48. Truly ye bear witness] Ye acknowledge that those of old who killed the prophets were your fathers, and ye are about to show, by your conduct towards me and my apostles, that ye are not degenerated, that ye are as capable of murdering a prophet now, as they were of old.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 48. Truly ye bear witness, that ye allow the deeds of your fathers , etc.] Or ye bear witness, and ye allow; that is, they both witnessed that their fathers killed the prophets, and they consented to what they did, and approved of their actions: for they indeed killed them ; it must be owned, and not their sons: and ye build their sepulchres ; which was a bearing and keeping up a testimony against them, and a continuing a remembrance of their crimes; and which looked as though they approved of them, or otherwise they should have been content to have the prophets lie buried in silence, and not erected stately monuments over them, which seemed to be raised more for the honour of those that put them to death, than of the prophets themselves. Or, whereas they did this under specious pretences of disliking their fathers' sins, which yet secretly they loved, and were of the same wicked disposition against the ministers of the word, and which they would quickly show; this discovered their hypocrisy, and confirmed the character Christ had before given of them; for it follows, Ver. 49. Therefore also said the wisdom of God , etc.]. The Syriac version only reads wisdom; by which seems to be meant not the perfection of God's wisdom: though it is usual with the Jews to represent the divine perfections as speaking, as the justice and mercy of God. They say f387 , that when the holy blessed God sought to make Hezekiah the Messiah, and Sennacherib, Gog, and Magog, ydh tdym , the property of judgment, or justice, said before the holy, blessed God, Lord of the world, etc. and so the sense may be here, that the infinite wisdom of God said within himself, determined in his own breast, to do what follows. But I rather think that Christ is intended, who, as God, is the essential wisdom of God; and, as man and mediator, has the spirit of wisdom resting on him, and the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hid in him; since this is said by Christ, ( Matthew 23:34) though the words here seem to be the words of the evangelist relating what Christ had said. Some have thought, that some book, under the name of The Wisdom of God, is here cited, which had in it the following words, I will send them prophets and apostles ; which, in Matthew, are called prophets, wise men, and Scribes; and by whom are meant the apostles of Christ, and the ministers of the Gospel. The Persic version reads, lo, I send to you, as in ( Matthew 23:34), and some of them they shall slay and persecute ; some of them they shall put to death, and others they shall persecute from one place to another; (see Gill on Matthew 23:34).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 37-54 - We should all look to our hearts, that they may be cleansed an new-created; and while we attend to the great things of the law and of the gospel, we must not neglect the smallest matter God has appointed When any wait to catch something out of our mouths, that they ma insnare us, O Lord, give us thy prudence and thy patience, an disappoint their evil purposes. Furnish us with such meekness an patience that we may glory in reproaches, for Christ's sake, and tha thy Holy Spirit may rest upon us __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
αρα 686 PRT μαρτυρειτε 3140 5719 V-PAI-2P και 2532 CONJ συνευδοκειτε 4909 5719 V-PAI-2P τοις 3588 T-DPN εργοις 2041 N-DPN των 3588 T-GPM πατερων 3962 N-GPM υμων 5216 P-2GP οτι 3754 CONJ αυτοι 846 P-NPM μεν 3303 PRT απεκτειναν 615 5656 V-AAI-3P αυτους 846 P-APM υμεις 5210 P-2NP δε 1161 CONJ οικοδομειτε 3618 5719 V-PAI-2P αυτων 846 P-GPM τα 3588 T-APN μνημεια 3419 N-APN
Vincent's NT Word Studies
48. Ye bear witness that ye allow (marturev este kai suneudokeite). Rev., more correctly, ye are witnesses and consent. The compound verb means "give your full approval." Ye think (dokeite); favorably (eu); along with them (sun).
Robertson's NT Word Studies
11:48 {Consent} (suneudokeite). Double compound (sun, eu, dokew), to think well along with others, to give full approval. A late verb, several times in the N.T., in #Ac 8:1 of Saul's consenting to and agreeing to Stephen's death. It is a somewhat subtle, but just, argument made here. Outwardly the lawyers build tombs for the prophets whom their fathers (forefathers) killed as if they disapproved what their fathers did. But in reality they neglect and oppose what the prophets teach just as their fathers did. So they are "witnesses" (martures) against themselves (#Mt 23:31).
