35 The [a]women received their dead raised to life: others also were [b]racked, and would not be delivered, that they might receive a better resurrection.

36 And others have been tried by mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover by bonds, and imprisonment.

37 They were stoned, they were hewn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword, they wandered up and down in [c]sheep’s skins, and in goats’ skins, being destitute, afflicted, and tormented:

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 11:35 He seemeth to mean the story of that woman of Zarephath, whose son Elijah raised again from death, and the Shunammite, whose son Elisha restored to his mother.
  2. Hebrews 11:35 He meaneth that persecution which Antiochus wrought.
  3. Hebrews 11:37 In vile and rough clothing, so were the saints brought to extreme poverty, and constrained to live like beasts in wildernesses.

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