2 Maccabees 7:15

¹⁵ Next after him, they brought the fifth and shamefully handled him. (WEB)

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4 Maccabees 11:1–2

¹ When he had died, disfigured in his torments, the fifth leaped forward, and said, (WEB) ² “I don’t intend, O tyrant, to get excused from the torment which is on behalf of virtue. (WEB)

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² First, they stripped the old man, adorned as he was with the beauty of piety. (WEB) ³ Then tying back his arms and hands, they disdainfully flogged him. (WEB) ⁴ A herald opposite cried out, “Obey the commands of the king!” (WEB)

Mark 12:3–5

³ But they seized the servant, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed. ⁴ Then he sent them another servant, and they struck him over the head and treated him shamefully. ⁵ He sent still another, and this one they killed. He sent many others; some they beat and othe…

2 Maccabees 7:38–40

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Luke 20:11–13

¹¹ So he sent another servant, but they beat him and treated him shamefully, sending him away empty-handed. ¹² Then he sent a third, but they wounded him and threw him out. ¹³ ‘What shall I do?’ asked the owner of the vineyard. ‘I will send my beloved son. Perhaps they…

2 Maccabees 7:7–9

⁷ And when the first had died like this, they brought the second to the mocking; and they pulled off the skin of his head with the hair and asked him, “Will you eat, before your body is punished in every limb?” (WEB) ⁸ But he answered in the language of his ancestors an… (WEB)

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