Luke 11:47
Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Cross-references
Matthew 23:29-33 contains the same woe about building tombs for prophets — a parallel account of Jesus' rebuke.
Acts 7:52 echoes the accusation that ancestors persecuted and killed the prophets — Stephen repeats the same indictment Jesus makes.
1 Thessalonians 2:15 directly echoes the killing of the prophets, connecting the Pharisees' ancestral guilt to Paul's indictment of the Jews.
Jeremiah 2:30 depicts Israel's sword devouring prophets, mirroring the ancestral murder Jesus condemns.
Matthew 5:12 mentions persecution of prophets, linking to Jesus' condemnation of those who killed them.
Acts 7:52 directly states that the fathers persecuted and killed the prophets, confirming the accusation here.
2 Chronicles 24:19 shows Israel's pattern of rejecting prophets, which underlies the ancestral guilt Jesus condemns.