When the husbandmen saw his son, they said among them selves: This is the heir, come on let us kill him, and let us take his inheritance, to our selves.
James 5:6 - William Tyndale New Testament Ye have condemned and have killed the just, and he hath not resisted you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You have condemned and have murdered the righteous (innocent man), [while] he offers no resistance to you. American Standard Version (1901) Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous one; he doth not resist you. Common English Bible You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who doesn’t oppose you. Catholic Public Domain Version You led away and killed the Just One, and he did not resist you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version You have condemned and put to death the Just One, and he resisted you not. |
When the husbandmen saw his son, they said among them selves: This is the heir, come on let us kill him, and let us take his inheritance, to our selves.
¶ The chief priests and the seniors had persuaded the people, that they should ask Barabbas, and should destroy Iesus.
But I say to you, that ye withstand not wrong. But if a man give thee a blow on thy right cheek, turn to him the other.
And he said unto me, the God of our fathers hath ordained thee before, that thou shouldest know his will, and shouldest see that which is rightful, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth:
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them, which shewed before of the coming of that Just, whom ye have betrayed and murdered.
The tenor of the scripture which he read was this. He was led as a sheep to be slain: And like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth,
But the just shall live by faith. And if he withdraw himself, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
But ye have despised the poor. Are not the rich they which oppress you: and they which draw you before judges?
Ye lust, and have not. Ye envy and have indignation, and cannot come by it. Ye fight and war, and have not, because ye ask not.
And if the righteous scarcely be saved: where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?