Luke 12:47

Etheridge Translation

And that servant who knew the will of his lord, and prepared not himself according to his will, shall be beaten with many

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
And that servant who knew his master’s will and didn’t prepare himself or do it

King James Version (1611)
And that seruant which knew his Lords will, and prepared not himselfe, neither did according to his will, shalbe beaten with many stripes.

King James Version
And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

English Standard Version
And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating.

New American Standard Bible
"And that slave who knew his master's will and did not get ready or act in accordance with his will, will receive many blows,

New Century Version
"The servant who knows what his master wants but is not ready, or who does not do what the master wants, will be beaten with many blows!

Amplified Bible
"And that servant who knew his master's will, and yet did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will be beaten with many lashes [of the whip],

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"And that slave who knew his master's will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many lashes,

Legacy Standard Bible
And that slave who knew his master's will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many beatings,

Berean Standard Bible
That servant who knows his master's will but does not get ready or follow his instructions will be beaten with many blows.

Contemporary English Version
If servants are not ready or willing to do what their master wants them to do, they will be beaten hard.

Complete Jewish Bible
Now the servant who knew what his master wanted but didn't prepare or act according to his will, will be whipped with many lashes;

Darby Translation
But that bondman who knew his own lord's will, and had not prepared [himself] nor done his will, shall be beaten with many [stripes];

Easy-to-Read Version
"That servant knew what his master wanted him to do. But he did not make himself ready or try to do what his master wanted. So that servant will be punished very much!

Geneva Bible (1587)
And that seruant that knewe his masters will, and prepared not himselfe, neither did according to his will, shalbe beaten with many stripes.

George Lamsa Translation
And the servant who knows the wishes of his master, and does not make ready according to his wishes, will receive a severe beating.

Good News Translation
"The servant who knows what his master wants him to do, but does not get himself ready and do it, will be punished with a heavy whipping.

Lexham English Bible
And that slave who knew the will of his master and did not prepare or do according to his will will be given a severe beating.

Literal Translation
But that slave knowing the will of his Lord, and not preparing, nor doing according to His will, will be beaten with many stripes .

American Standard Version
And that servant, who knew his lord's will, and made not ready, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes;

Bible in Basic English
And the servant who had knowledge of his lord's desires and was not ready for him and did not do as he was ordered, will be given a great number of blows;

Hebrew Names Version
That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,

International Standard Version
That servant who knew what his master wanted but didn't prepare himself or do what was wanted will receive a severe beating.Numbers 15:30; Deuteronomy 25:2; John 9:41; 15:22; Acts 17:30; James 4:17;">[xr]

Murdock Translation
And the servant that knew his lord's pleasure, and did not prepare for him according to his pleasure, shall be beaten with many [fn] .

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the seruaunt that knewe his maisters wyll, and prepared not hym selfe, neither dyd accordyng to his wyll, shalbe beaten with many strypes.

English Revised Version
And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and made not ready, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes;

World English Bible
That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And that servant who knew his Lord's will, and prepared not, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

Weymouth's New Testament
And that servant who has been told his Master's will and yet made no preparation and did not obey His will, will receive many lashes.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But thilke seruaunt that knew the wille of his lord, and made not hym redi, and dide not aftir his wille, schal be betun with many betyngis.

Update Bible Version
And that slave, who knew his lord's will, and did not make ready, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many [stripes];

Webster's Bible Translation
And that servant who knew his lord's will, and prepared not [himself], neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many [stripes].

New English Translation
That servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or do what his master asked will receive a severe beating.

New King James Version
And that servant who knew his master's will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

New Living Translation
"And a servant who knows what the master wants, but isn't prepared and doesn't carry out those instructions, will be severely punished.

New Life Bible
"The servant who knew what the owner wanted done, but did not get ready for him, or did not do what he wanted done, will be beaten many times.

New Revised Standard
That slave who knew what his master wanted, but did not prepare himself or do what was wanted, will receive a severe beating.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, that servant, who had come to know the will of his lord, and neither prepared, nor wrought unto his will, shall be beaten with many stripes;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And that servant, who knew the will of his lord and prepared not himself and did not according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

Revised Standard Version
And that servant who knew his master's will, but did not make ready or act according to his will, shall receive a severe beating.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
The servaut that knewe his masters will and prepared not him selfe nether dyd accordinge to his will shalbe bete with many strypes.

Young's Literal Translation
`And that servant, who having known his lord's will, and not having prepared, nor having gone according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The seruaunt that knewe his lordes wil and prepared not himself, nether dyd acordinge to his will, shal be beaten with many strypes:

Mace New Testament (1729)
but the servant, who knows his master's will, and prepares not himself, nor executes his orders, shall receive many stripes.

THE MESSAGE
"The servant who knows what his master wants and ignores it, or insolently does whatever he pleases, will be thoroughly thrashed. But if he does a poor job through ignorance, he'll get off with a slap on the hand. Great gifts mean great responsibilities; greater gifts, greater responsibilities!

Simplified Cowboy Version
"And the cowboy who knows what he should be doing, but isn't prepared or ready to do the job will also be punished.

Contextual Overview

⁴¹ Shemun Kipha said to him, Our Lord, to us speakest thou this parable, or to all men also ? ⁴² Jeshu said to him, Who then is that steward, faithful and wise, whom his lord hath established over his service, to give the portion in its time ? ⁴³ Blessed that servant whom, when his lord shall come, he shall find so doing. ⁴⁴ Assuredly I tell you, He will establish him over all his substance. ⁴⁵ But if that servant shall say in his heart, My lord withholdeth to come, and shall begin to beat the servants and the handmaids of his lord, and shall begin to eat and to drink and be drunken; ⁴⁶ the lord of that servant will come in a day when he thinketh not, and in an hour which he knoweth not; and shall sunder him, and set him his portion with those who are not faithful. ⁴⁷ And that servant who knew the will of his lord, and prepared not himself according to his will, shall be beaten with many ⁴⁸ But he who knew not, and did that which was worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For every one to whom much is given, much will be required from him; and to whom much is committed, the more will they require at his hand. ⁴⁹ FIRE have I come to send forth upon the earth, and I would that it already burned: ⁵⁰ and I have a baptism (wherewith) to be baptized, and greatly am I pressed till it be completed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

knew: Luke 10:12-15, Numbers 15:30, Numbers 15:31, Matthew 11:22-24, John 9:41, John 12:48, John 15:22-24, John 19:11, Acts 17:30, 2 Corinthians 2:15, 2 Corinthians 2:16, James 4:17

shall: Deuteronomy 25:2, Deuteronomy 25:3

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 8:19 - I testify against Job 11:13 - prepare Job 24:13 - rebel Lamentations 4:6 - punishment of the iniquity of the daughter Ezekiel 9:6 - and begin Ezekiel 16:51 - Samaria Ezekiel 33:9 - if he Daniel 5:22 - though Hosea 4:15 - yet Amos 3:2 - therefore Mark 12:40 - long Luke 6:49 - the ruin Luke 10:14 - General Luke 20:47 - the same Luke 23:34 - they know not John 3:19 - this John 13:17 - happy Acts 12:23 - because Romans 1:18 - who hold Romans 2:9 - of the Jew Romans 2:12 - For Romans 2:18 - knowest Romans 2:21 - therefore 2 Corinthians 8:12 - if 1 Timothy 1:13 - because 1 Timothy 5:8 - and is Hebrews 10:26 - after James 1:22 - be James 3:1 - knowing 1 Peter 4:17 - judgment 2 Peter 2:21 - it had

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And that servant which knew his Lord's will,.... Not his secret, but his revealed will; the will of God, which lies in the declarations of his grace and mercy in the Gospel, and in the commands and ordinances expressed in his word; and which are the good, perfect, and acceptable will of God; the knowledge of which is necessary, in order to practice: and where there is a spiritual and saving knowledge, there will be practice: but there may be knowledge, where there is no practice, and which was the case here: Christ here distinguishes between wicked servants, some being knowing, and others ignorant; and accordingly the aggravations of their guilt are more or less:

and prepared not himself; so the Arabic and Ethiopic versions supply, but the Syriac version, "for him", that is, for his Lord: but it may as well be read as in the Vulgate Latin, without any supplement, "and prepared not"; he took no thought nor care about doing it; there is no preparation, readiness, nor disposition, in a natural man, to the will of God: no man is prepared or ready to do it, but he that is regenerated, or is made a new creature; who has the laws of God written on his heart, and who has the Spirit of God put within him, to cause him to keep them; and who has faith in Christ, and strength from him to observe them; but there may be knowledge, where such a preparation is wanting; persons may know much, and profess to know more, and in works deny all, and be to every good work, unfit, disobedient, and reprobate: this clause is left out in the Persic version:

neither did according to his will; the will of God is done aright, when what is done, is done according to the command of God, in the strength of Christ, from love to him, in the exercise of faith on him, and with a view to his glory, and without any dependence on what is done; but there may be knowledge, without any thing of this: the words, "neither did", are wanting in the Syriac version: and such a man that has knowledge without practice,

shall be beaten with many stripes; alluding to the law of the Jews, by which a wicked man was to be punished, by beating him with stripes, not exceeding, forty, according to the nature of his fault,

Deuteronomy 25:2 and here it signifies, that persons who have light and knowledge, and the means thereof, and act not according to them, shall be punished with the greatest severity, and endure the greatest degree of torments in hell; see Matthew 11:21

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Which knew his lord’s will - Who knew what his master wished him to do. He that knows what God commands and requires.

Many stripes - Shall be severely and justly punished. They who have many privileges, who are often warned, who have the gospel, and do not repent and believe, shall be far more severely punished than others. They who are early taught in Sunday schools, or by pious parents, or in other ways, and who grow up in sin and impenitence, will have much more to answer for than those who have no such privileges.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 47. Shall be beaten with many stripes. — Criminals among the Jews could not be beaten with more than forty stripes; and as this was the sum of the severity to which a whipping could extend, it may be all that our Lord here means. But, in some cases, a man was adjudged to receive fourscore stripes! How could this be, when the law had decreed only forty? Answer: By doubling the crime. He received forty for each crime; if he were guilty of two offences, he might receive fourscore. See Lightfoot.