Luke 11:48 Explained in Context

Selected verse

Verse 48. Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.

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Quick Meaning

Read It With

Luke 11:37–11:54

Read Luke 11:48 with 11:37–11:54. Luke 11:48 anchors Luke 11:48's part of Luke 11:37–11:54 in its own wording: “Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres”. The complete unit's controlling movement is: At a Pharisee's meal Jesus contrasts exterior washing with inward greed, calls for generosity, condemns neglected justice and love, status seeking, hidden contamination, burdening experts, prophet-killing memorials, and blocked knowledge.

Why This Verse Appears Here

Luke 11:48 anchors Luke 11:48's part of Luke 11:37–11:54 in its own wording: “Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres”. This selected detail moves Luke 11:37–11:54 from its initiating question or action toward the unit's response and prepares Luke's next movement.

What Remains True

Luke 11:48 anchors Luke 11:48's part of Luke 11:37–11:54 in its own wording: “Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres”. Read inside Luke 11:37–11:54, this contribution supports the unit's proportionate truth: At a Pharisee's meal Jesus contrasts exterior washing with inward greed, calls for generosity, condemns neglected justice and love, status seeking, hidden contamination, burdening experts, prophet-killing memorials, and blocked knowledge. Its use remains accountable to affected people and the unit's explicit boundary.

How It Can Shape Life

When teaching Luke 11:48, explain this exact contribution inside Luke 11:37–11:54, identify the unit's source-controlled uncertainty, and refuse this misuse before proposing action: The woes do not authorize antisemitism, contempt for Torah or Pharisees, harassment of scholars, leader exemption, or generalized collective guilt.

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Read Luke 11:37–11:54 — Table Woes Expose Injustice and Burdening Authority

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Biblical text

King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society

USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and coverage.

Exact location: Luke 11:37–11:54, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus

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Greek textual evidence

The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition

Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos

Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010

Supports: Greek wording and sentence relations; the edition is not treated as a complete apparatus.

Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT official repository, data/sblgnt/text/Luke.txt, 11:37–11:54

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open translation and translator notes

NET Bible First Edition Notes: Luke

Biblical Studies Press

Biblical Studies Press, 2006

Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, KJV-language clarification, historical notes, Synoptic parallels, and textual alternatives.

Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Luke PDF, exact tn/tc/sn entries attached to Luke 11:37–11:54

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