Bible in Basic English
"A curse is on you! for you make resting-places for the bodies of the prophets, but your fathers put them to death."
— Luke 11:47, Bible in Basic English
“Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.”
“Woe unto you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. ”
“Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.”
“Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them.”
“Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.”
A curse is on you! for you are like the resting-places of dead men, which are not seen, and men go walking over them without knowledge of it.
And one of the teachers of the law, answering, said to him, Master, in saying this, you give a bad name to us as to them.
And he said, A curse is on you, teachers of the law! for while other men are crushed under the weight of the rules you make for them, you yourselves do not put so much as one finger to them.
A curse is on you! for you make resting-places for the bodies of the prophets, but your fathers put them to death.
So you are witnesses and give approval to the work of your fathers; for they put them to death and you make their last resting-places.
For this reason the wisdom of God has said, I will send them prophets and teachers, and to some of them they will give death and cruel pains;
So that punishment may come on this generation for the blood of all the prophets which was given from the earliest days;