Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. New Living Translation But the farmers grabbed his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another. English Standard Version And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Berean Standard Bible But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. Berean Literal Bible And the farmers having taken his servants, one they beat, and one they killed, and one they stoned. King James Bible And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. New King James Version And the vinedressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another. New American Standard Bible And the vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. NASB 1995 “The vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third. NASB 1977 “And the vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third. Legacy Standard Bible And the vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third. Amplified Bible But the tenants took his servants and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third. Christian Standard Bible The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. Holman Christian Standard Bible But the farmers took his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. American Standard Version And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Aramaic Bible in Plain English “And the laborers seized his servants; they beat one and another they stoned and another they killed.” Contemporary English Version But the renters grabbed those servants. They beat up one, killed one, and stoned one of them to death. Douay-Rheims Bible And the husbandmen laying hands on his servants, beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. English Revised Version And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. GOD'S WORD® Translation The workers took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned a third to death. Good News Translation The tenants grabbed his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. International Standard Version But the farmers took his servants and beat one, killed another, and attacked another with stones. Literal Standard Version and the farmers having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned. Majority Standard Bible But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. New American Bible But the tenants seized the servants and one they beat, another they killed, and a third they stoned. NET Bible But the tenants seized his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. New Revised Standard Version But the tenants seized his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. New Heart English Bible The tenants took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Webster's Bible Translation And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Weymouth New Testament but the vine-dressers seized the servants, and one they cruelly beat, one they killed, one they pelted with stones. World English Bible The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Young's Literal Translation and the husbandmen having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned. Additional Translations ... Context The Parable of the Wicked Tenants…34When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit. 35But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. 36Again, he sent other servants, more than the first group. But the tenants did the same to them.… Cross References Jeremiah 26:8 and as soon as he had finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people seized him, shouting, "You must surely die! Jeremiah 37:15 The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison. Matthew 21:34 When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit. Matthew 21:36 Again, he sent other servants, more than the first group. But the tenants did the same to them. Treasury of Scripture And the farmers took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Matthew 5:12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. Matthew 23:31-37 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets… 1 Kings 18:4,13 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.) … Jump to Previous Attack Beat Blows Cruelly Death Farmers Husbandmen Killed Pelted Putting Scourged Seized Servants Slaves Stoned Stones Stoning Tenants Third Vine-Dressers Vine-Growers WorkmenJump to Next Attack Beat Blows Cruelly Death Farmers Husbandmen Killed Pelted Putting Scourged Seized Servants Slaves Stoned Stones Stoning Tenants Third Vine-Dressers Vine-Growers WorkmenMatthew 21 1. Jesus rides into Jerusalem upon a donkey12. drives the buyers and sellers out of the temple; 17. curses the fig tree; 23. puts to silence the priests and elders, 28. and rebukes them by the parable of the two sons, 33. and the husbandmen who slew such as were sent to them. (35) Beat one, and killed another.--The language paints the general treatment of the prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zechariah the son of Jehoiada, being the most conspicuous instances. The language of our Lord in Matthew 23:30; Matthew 23:34, not less than that of Hebrews 11:37, implies that the prophets, as a class, had no light or easy task, and were called upon, one by one, to suffer persecution for the faithful exercise of their office.Verse 35. - Took his servants. The exaction of rent in kind has always been a fruitful source of dispute, fraud, and discontent. In the Jewish Church God's messengers had been ill treated and put to death (see ch. 23:34-37). "Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted?" cried St. Stephen; "and they have slain them which showed before the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been the betrayers and murderers" (Acts 7:52). Beat... killed... stoned. A climax of iniquity and guilt. The statement is probably meant to be general; some, however, endeavour to individualize it, referring the "beating" to the treatment of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 20:1, 2), "killing" to Isaiah (Hebrews 11:37, "sawn asunder"), "stoning" to Zechariah son of Jehoiada (2 Chronicles 24:20, 21). Doubtless, the incidents in such persecutions were often repeated. Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Butκαὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. the οἱ (hoi) Article - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. tenants γεωργοὶ (geōrgoi) Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 1092: From ge and the base of ergon; a land-worker, i.e. Farmer. seized λαβόντες (labontes) Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 2983: (a) I receive, get, (b) I take, lay hold of. his αὐτοῦ (autou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. servants. δούλους (doulous) Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural Strong's 1401: (a) (as adj.) enslaved, (b) (as noun) a (male) slave. From deo; a slave. They beat ἔδειραν (edeiran) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural Strong's 1194: To flay, flog, scourge, beat. A primary verb; properly, to flay, i.e. to scourge, or to thrash. one, ὃν (hon) Personal / Relative Pronoun - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 3739: Who, which, what, that. killed ἀπέκτειναν (apekteinan) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural Strong's 615: To put to death, kill; fig: I abolish. From apo and kteino; to kill outright; figuratively, to destroy. [another], ὃν (hon) Personal / Relative Pronoun - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 3739: Who, which, what, that. and δὲ (de) Conjunction Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc. stoned ἐλιθοβόλησαν (elithobolēsan) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural Strong's 3036: To stone, cast stones (at), kill by stoning. From a compound of lithos and ballo; to throw stones, i.e. Lapidate. a third. ὃν (hon) Personal / Relative Pronoun - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 3739: Who, which, what, that. 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