Matthew 21:35 “But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, an…”

Matthew 21:35

But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

World English Bible

The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

American Standard Version

And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

Geneva Bible 1599

And ye husbandmen tooke his seruants and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

Darby Translation

And the husbandmen took his bondmen, and 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.

Bible in Basic English

And the workmen made an attack on his servants, giving blows to one, putting another to death, and stoning another.

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Cross references

“And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.”

Matthew 5:12 Nehemiah 9:26 Acts 7:52 Matthew 23:31–37 Revelation 6:9 1 Kings 18:4

Matthew 5:12 · BSB

Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.

Nehemiah 9:26 · BSB

But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

Acts 7:52 · BSB

Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

Matthew 23:31–37 · BSB

So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Revelation 6:9 · BSB

And when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony they had upheld.

1 Kings 18:4 · BSB

for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

34When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit.

36Again, he sent other servants, more than the first group. But the tenants did the same to them.

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