So you are witnesses and you consent to the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs.
Christ here says many of those things to a Pharisee and his guests, in a private conversation at table, which he afterwards said in a public discourse in the temple (Mt. 23); for what he said in public and private was of a piece.
Commenting on Luke 11:37-54
That the blood of all the prophets,.... The same with "all the righteous blood", or the blood of all the righteous men, in Mat 23:35, which was shed from the foundation of the world: for there were prophets from the beginning, which prophesied of Christ, Luk 1:70 and whose blood was shed very early; for Abel, the son of the first man, and who was...
Verse 48. . Also . (f) "ye allow" (g) "they indeed killed"