Matthew 23:29
Good News Translation
"How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You make fine tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of those who lived good lives;

New Revised Standard Version
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous,

Contemporary English Version
You Pharisees and teachers are nothing but show-offs, and you're in for trouble! You build monuments for the prophets and decorate the tombs of good people.

New American Bible
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the memorials of the righteous,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just,

ye build.

Luke 11:47,48 Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them. . . .

Acts 2:29 Ye men, brethren, let me freely speak to you of the patriarch David: that he died and was buried; and his sepulchre is with us to this present say.

Context
Woes to Scribes and Pharisees
28So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just: but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. 29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just, 30And say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.…
Cross References
Matthew 23:27
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but within are full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness.

Matthew 23:28
So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just: but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Matthew 23:30
And say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

Luke 11:47
Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them.

Matthew 23:28
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