Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and killing some.
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Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and killing some.
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And agayne he sent another and him they kylled: and many other beetynge some and kyllinge some.
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And againe he sent another, and him they slew, and many other, beating some, and killing some.
Cross-references (9)
Passages linked to Mark 12:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Nehemiah 9:30 Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
- Jeremiah 7:25-28 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them. Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers. “You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you. You shall tell them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to Yahweh their God’s voice, nor received instruction. Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.’
- Matthew 5:12 Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
- Matthew 21:35-36 The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way.
- Matthew 22:6 and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.
- Matthew 23:37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
- Mark 9:13 But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him.”
- Luke 6:22-23 Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake. Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.
- Luke 6:36 “Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And again he sent another,.... That is, another servant,…
And again he sent another,.... That is, another servant, or set of men, it may be in the times of the Maccabees, who were used in a very inhuman manner; see Heb 11:37;
and him they killed; either with the sword, or by inflicting some capital punishment, as stoning, strangling, &c.
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and many others; that is, either the owner of the vineyard sent many other servants, or the husbandmen ill used many others that were sent to them:
beating some; with their hands, or with scourges;
and killing some; in one or other of the above ways.
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