Luke 11:47-48 Woe to you! for you build the sepulchers of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.… Hannibal, the Carthaginian conqueror, when sailing from Italy to Carthage, suspected his pilot of treachery, and when the latter told him that a high mountain which appeared in the distance was a promontory of Sicily, believing himself imposed upon, he killed him on the spot, but afterwards buried him splendidly, and called the promontory by his name. Thus he illustrated the way of the world with its true prophets. Parallel Verses KJV: Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.WEB: Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. |