When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruit.
Matthew 21:35 - The Text-Critical English New Testament But the farmers took his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned yet another. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. American Standard Version (1901) And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Common English Bible But the tenant farmers grabbed his servants. They beat some of them, and some of them they killed. Some of them they stoned to death. Catholic Public Domain Version And the farmers apprehended his servants; they struck one, and killed another, and stoned yet another. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the husbandmen laying hands on his servants, beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. |
When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruit.
Again he sent other servants, more than the first. But the farmers treated them in the same way.
Rejoice and be glad, for great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become,
When the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and because of the testimony of the Lamb which they had upheld.