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Luke 11:49
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47 aWoe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.  
48 In fact, you bear witness that you approve the deeds of your fathers; for they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs.
49 Therefore the wisdom of God also said, a‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’  
50 that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,
51 afrom the blood of Abel to bthe blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the temple. Yes, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.  
52 a“Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered.”  
53 1And as He said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to assail Him vehemently, and to cross-examine Him about many things,  
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Luke 11:49

The wisdom of God (h sofia tou qeou). In Matthew 23:34 Jesus uses "I send" (egw apostellw) without this phrase "the wisdom of God." There is no book to which it can refer. Jesus is the wisdom of God as Paul shows (I Corinthians 1:30), but it is hardly likely that he so describes himself here. Probably he means that God in his wisdom said, but even so "Jesus here speaks with confident knowledge of the Divine counsels" (Plummer). See Luke 10:22; Luke 15:7, Luke 15:10. Here the future tense occurs, "I will send" (apostelw).

Some of them (ec autwn). No "some" (tinav) in the Greek, but understood. They will act as their fathers did. They will kill and persecute.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 11:49:

Matthew 23:29
Revelation 2:10

 

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