Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
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Gill's Exposition
Therefore also said the wisdom of God,..... 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…
See the notes at Mat 23:29-36. Luk 11:49 The wisdom of God - By the “wisdom of God,” here, is undoubtedly meant the Saviour himself. What he immediately says is not written in the Old Testament. Jesus…
Adam Clarke
Ye build the sepulchres - That is, ye rebuild and beautify them. See on Mat 23:29 (note).
Christ here says many of those things to a Pharisee and his guests, in a private conversation at table, which he afterwards said in a public discourse in the temple (Mt. 23); for what he said in…
Cambridge Bible
your fathers killed them This is holy sarcasm. They boasted that they would nothave done as their fathers had done to the Prophets (Mat 23:30), yet they rejected John, the greatest of the Prophets,…