Luke 20:11 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Then he sent out another slave [i.e., to arrange for receiving the crop], but the tenant farmers beat him also, shamefully abused him and sent him away empty handed [as well].

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And he sent still another servant; him they also beat (thrashed) and dishonored and insulted him disgracefully and sent him away empty-handed.

American Standard Version (1901)

And he sent yet another servant: and him also they beat, and handled him shamefully, and sent him away empty.

Common English Bible

The man sent another servant. But they beat him, treated him disgracefully, and sent him away empty-handed as well.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And he continued to send another servant. But beating him and treating him with contempt, they likewise sent him away, empty-handed.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And again he sent another servant. But they beat him also, and treating him reproachfully, sent him away empty.

Luke 20:11 Cross References

Mark 12:4

Again the owner of the farm sent another slave, whom they wounded in the head and shamefully abused.

Luke 20:10

And when the [grape harvest] season came, the owner of the farm sent a slave to the tenant farmers, asking them for the grape harvest [to be delivered to him]. But the tenant farmers beat the slave and sent him away empty handed.

Luke 20:12

So, he sent a third [slave] and they wounded him also and threw him out [of the vineyard].

Acts 7:52

Which one of the prophets did your forefathers not persecute? They [even] killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One [i.e., Jesus], whom you people betrayed and murdered.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

But [even though] we had already suffered and been mistreated at Philippi [See Acts 16:19-24], as you people know, we had the boldness, [with help] from God, to tell you His message in spite of much struggle [i.e., opposition].