KJV: Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
YLT: Then do ye testify, and are well pleased with the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye do build their tombs;
Darby: Ye bear witness then, and consent to the works of your fathers; for they killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
ASV: So ye are witnesses and consent unto the works of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build their tombs .
| ἄρα | So |
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Parse: Conjunction Root: ἄρα Sense: therefore, so then, wherefore. |
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| μάρτυρές | witnesses |
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Parse: Noun, Nominative Masculine Plural Root: μάρτυς Sense: a witness. |
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| ἐστε | you are |
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Parse: Verb, Present Indicative Active, 2nd Person Plural Root: εἰμί Sense: to be, to exist, to happen, to be present. |
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| συνευδοκεῖτε | consent |
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Parse: Verb, Present Indicative Active, 2nd Person Plural Root: συνευδοκέω Sense: to be pleased together with, to approve together (with others). |
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| τοῖς | to the |
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Parse: Article, Dative Neuter Plural Root: ὁ Sense: this, that, these, etc. |
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| ἔργοις | works |
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Parse: Noun, Dative Neuter Plural Root: ἔργον Sense: business, employment, that which any one is occupied. |
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| τῶν | of the |
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Parse: Article, Genitive Masculine Plural Root: ὁ Sense: this, that, these, etc. |
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| πατέρων | fathers |
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Parse: Noun, Genitive Masculine Plural Root: προπάτωρ Sense: generator or male ancestor. |
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| ὑμῶν | of you |
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Parse: Personal / Possessive Pronoun, Genitive 2nd Person Plural Root: σύ Sense: you. |
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| μὲν | indeed |
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Parse: Conjunction Root: μέν Sense: truly, certainly, surely, indeed. |
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| ἀπέκτειναν | killed |
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Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Active, 3rd Person Plural Root: ἀποκτείνω Sense: to kill in any way whatever. |
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| δὲ | now |
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Parse: Conjunction Root: δέ Sense: but, moreover, and, etc. |
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| οἰκοδομεῖτε | build [their tombs] |
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Parse: Verb, Present Indicative Active, 2nd Person Plural Root: οἰκοδομέω Sense: to build a house, erect a building. |
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Greek Commentary for Luke 11:48
Double compound (συν ευ δοκεω sun μαρτυρες eu dokeō), to think well along with others, to give full approval. A late verb, several times in the N.T., in Acts 8:1 of Saul‘s consenting to and agreeing to Stephen‘s death. It is a somewhat subtle, but just, argument made here. Outwardly the lawyers build tombs for the prophets whom their fathers (forefathers) killed as if they disapproved what their fathers did. But in reality they neglect and oppose what the prophets teach just as their fathers did. So they are “witnesses” (martures) against themselves (Matthew 23:31). [source]
Rev., more correctly, ye are witnesses and con sent. The compound verb means “give your full approval.” Ye think ( δοκεῖτε )favorably ( εὖ ); along with them ( σύν ). [source]
Reverse Greek Commentary Search for Luke 11:48
Cf. Luke 11:48-52. They were bearing witness against themselves “These men who professed to be so distressed at the murdering of the Prophets, were themselves compassing the death of Him who was far greater than any Prophet” (Plummer). There are four monuments called Tombs of the Prophets (Zechariah, Absalom, Jehoshaphat, St. James) at the base of the Mount of Olives. Some of these may have been going up at the very time that Jesus spoke. In this seventh and last woe Jesus addresses the Jewish nation and not merely the Pharisees. [source]
See on allow, Luke 11:48; and compare Acts 8:1. [source]
Εργο Ergo as in Luke 11:20, Luke 11:48 and like αρα ουν ara oun in Romans 5:18. In ancient Greek inferential αρα ara cannot come at the beginning of a clause as here. It was reluctant acquiescence in the undoubted fact that God had “granted repentance unto life” to these Gentiles in Caesarea, but the circumcision party undoubtedly looked on it as an exceptional case and not to be regarded as a precedent to follow with other Gentiles. Peter will see in this incident (Acts 15:8) the same principle for which Paul contends at the Jerusalem Conference. Furneaux suggests that this conduct of Peter in Caesarea, though grudgingly acquiesced in after his skilful defence, decreased his influence in Jerusalem where he had been leader and helped open the way for the leadership of James the Lord‘s brother. [source]
And “martyr” also as in Revelation 2:13; Revelation 17:6. Transition state for the word here. I also was standing by (και αυτος ημην επεστως kai autos ēmēn ephestōs). Periphrastic second past perfect in form, but imperfect (linear) in sense since εστωσισταμενος hestōŝhistamenos (intransitive). Consenting The very word used by Luke in Acts 8:1 about Paul. Koiné{[28928]}š word for being pleased at the same time with (cf. Luke 11:48). Paul adds here the item of “guarding the clothes of those who were slaying Paul recalls the very words of protest used by him to Jesus. He did not like the idea of running away to save his own life right where he had helped slay Stephen. He is getting on dangerous ground. [source]
The very word used by Luke in Acts 8:1 about Paul. Koiné{[28928]}š word for being pleased at the same time with (cf. Luke 11:48). Paul adds here the item of “guarding the clothes of those who were slaying Paul recalls the very words of protest used by him to Jesus. He did not like the idea of running away to save his own life right where he had helped slay Stephen. He is getting on dangerous ground. [source]
Allow is used by A.V. in the earlier English sense of approve. Compare Luke 11:48; Romans 14:22; 1 Thessalonians 2:4. Shakespeare: “Thou shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras as I will allow of thy wits” (“Twelfth Night,” iv., 2). But the meaning of γινώσκω is not approve, but recognize, come to know, perceive. Hence Rev., I know not. Paul says: “What I carry out I do not recognize in its true nature, as a slave who ignorantly performs his master's behest without knowing its tendency or result.” [source]
Late verb for hearty approval as in Luke 11:48; Acts 8:1; 1 Corinthians 7:12. It is a tragedy of American city government that so many of the officials are proven to be hand in glove with the underworld of law-breakers. [source]