Hebrews 11:35
Women received back their dear ones alive from the dead; and others were put to death with torture, refusing the deliverance offered to them--that they might secure a better resurrection.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
36Others again were tested by cruel mockery and by scourging; yes, and by chains and imprisonment.
Cross References
Mark 12:25For when they have risen from among the dead, men do not marry and women are not given in marriage, but they are as angels are in Heaven.
Luke 14:14and you will be blessed, because they have no means of requiting you, but there will be requital for you at the Resurrection of the righteous."
John 5:29they who have done what is right to the resurrection of Life, and they whose actions have been evil to the resurrection of judgement.
Acts 4:19But Peter and John replied, "Judge whether it is right in God's sight to listen to you instead of listening to God.
Acts 22:24the Tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, and be examined by flogging, in order to ascertain the reason why they thus cried out against him.
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 11:33-40
Exemplars of Faith. ( a. d. 62.) 32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: 33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. 35 Women received their dead raised to… Read the whole commentary →