Charles Ellicott Commentary Luke 11:48

"So ye are witnesses and consent unto the works of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build [their tombs]." — Luke 11:48 (ASV)

Truly you bear witness that you allow.—The better manuscripts read, Truly are you witnesses, and you allow.

The word “allow” has, as always in the English Bible, the meaning of “approving of,” “consenting to,” “having pleasure in.” The last phrase is the rendering of the same Greek word in Romans 1:32 and would express the meaning here.

The derivation of “allow” from the French allouer and the Latin adlaudare, shows this to be the true sense. On the rest of the verse, see the note on Matthew 23:31.