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Hebrews 11:36

What does Hebrews 11:36 mean?

A plain-English look at Hebrews 11:36 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

What Hebrews 11:36 means

Others faced mockery, beatings, chains, and imprisonment. Faithfulness often draws hostility from a world that resists God’s truth. These trials touch dignity, body, and freedom, yet do not overthrow confidence in God. The catalogue teaches that suffering is not evidence of weak faith; it can be the very arena where faith shines. God’s people endure both verbal abuse and physical punishment, continuing to trust the One who judges righteously and rewards those who seek him.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

And others were tested by being laughed at or by blows, and even with chains and prisons:

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment;

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And others had trial of mockeries and stripes: moreover also of bands and prisons.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

and others underwent trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, and of bonds and imprisonment.

Context

The shift from victories to sufferings continues. This verse lists social and legal persecutions that afflicted the faithful. By including such experiences alongside miraculous deliverances, the author refuses to idealize the life of faith. The momentum builds toward even harsher treatments in the next verse, culminating in deprivation and wandering, which will then be evaluated from God’s perspective in verse 38.

v.35Women received their dead by a resurrection: and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

v.36This passage

v.37they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Kings 22:27

    and say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

  • Luke 23:11

    And Herod with his soldiers set him at nought, and mocked him, and arraying him in gorgeous apparel sent him back to Pilate.

  • 2 Chronicles 30:10

    So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

  • Matthew 23:34

    Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:

  • 2 Chronicles 16:10

    Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in the prison-house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

  • Matthew 21:35

    And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

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