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So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.
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Actions that Betray the Heart
Commentators explain the deep irony in this verse. The religious leaders built elaborate tombs, seemingly to honor the prophets their ancestors murdered. However, Jesus reveals this act as hypocrisy. By rejecting God's current messengers (like Jesus himself), they showed they shared the same murderous spirit as their fathers, making their tomb-building a public witness against themselves.
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Consent (συνευδοκειτε). Double compound (συν, ευ, δοκεω), to think well along with others, to give full approval. A late verb, sev…
19th Century
Anglican
Truly you bear witness that you allow.—The better manuscripts read, Truly are you witnesses, and you allow.
Baptist
They pretended to have such regard for the holy men of the past that, being unable to honor them in person, they would set up monuments to their me…
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Some lavish tombs were built for royalty and others before and during the time of Christ. It was all very well for the experts in the law to build …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Truly ye bear witness, that ye allow the deeds of your fathers Or "ye bear witness, a…
Presbyterian
We should all look to our hearts, that they may be cleansed and new-created; and while we attend to the great things of the law and of the gospel, …
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