Matthew 21:35
And the earth-tillers took his servants, and they beat one, they slew another, and stoned another.
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 18:4For when Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord, he took an hundred prophets, and hid them, by fifties and fifties, in dens, (or and hid them in caves, fifty by fifty), and fed them with bread and water.
1 Kings 19:2And Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, and said, Gods do these things to me (or The gods do these things to me), and add these things too, no but tomorrow in this hour I shall put thy life as the life of one of them.
1 Kings 22:24Forsooth Zedekiah, [the] son of Chenaanah, nighed, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Whether the Spirit of the Lord forsook me, and spake to thee?
2 Chronicles 24:21Which were gathered together against him, and casted stones ( at him), by commandment of the king, in the large place of the house of the Lord. (And they gathered together against him, and threw stones at him, by the command of the king, in the courtyard of the House of the Lord.)
Nehemiah 9:26And yet they stirred thee to wrathfulness, and went away from thee, and casted away thy law behind their backs; and they killed thy prophets, that witnessed to them, that they should turn again to thee; and they did great blasphemies. (And yet they stirred thee to great anger, and went away from thee, and threw away thy Law behind their backs; and they killed thy prophets, who witnessed to them, that they should return to thee; and they did great blasphemies.)
Jeremiah 25:3From the thirteenth year of the realm of Josiah, the son of Amon, the king of Judah, unto this day, this is the three and twentieth year, (that) the word of the Lord was made to me; and I spake to you, and I rose (up) by night and spake, and ye heard not (or but ye would not listen).
Matthew Henry on Matthew 21:34-46
The Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen. 33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: 34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. 35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again, he sent other servants more… Read the whole commentary →