Matthew 21:35

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

But the tenant farmers took the farm owner’s slaves and beat one, killed another and stoned another.

Cross References

Matthew 21:34

And when the season for harvesting the grapes approached, the owner of the farm sent his slaves to the tenant farmers to arrange for delivery of his crop.

Matthew 21:36

The owner of the farm then sent additional slaves and they were treated the same way.

Matthew 5:12

Be happy and very glad, for your reward in heaven will be great. For they persecuted the prophets [who lived] before you in the same way.

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.

Revelation 6:9

And when the Lamb broke open the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for [believing and preaching] God’s message, and for the testimony [about Jesus] which they had maintained.