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Simplified Cowboy Version

Philemon 1:24

Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke all send their regards as well.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- 1910 New Catholic Dictionary - mark, saint evangelist;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Onesimus;   Philemon;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Aristarchus;   Luke;  

Encyclopedias:

- Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Aristarchus;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for April 5;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my coworkers.
King James Version (1611)
Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellow labourers.
King James Version
Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellowlabourers.
English Standard Version
and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
New American Standard Bible
as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
New Century Version
And also Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, workers together with me, send greetings.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow workers.
Legacy Standard Bible
as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow workers.
Berean Standard Bible
as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
Contemporary English Version
and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, who work together with me.
Complete Jewish Bible
as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke, my fellow-workers.
Darby Translation
Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow-workmen.
Easy-to-Read Version
Also Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke send their greetings. They are workers together with me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke, my felowe helpers.
George Lamsa Translation
So do Mark, Ar-is-tar''chus, De''mas, and Luke, my fellow-workers.
Good News Translation
and so do my co-workers Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke.
Lexham English Bible
and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
Literal Translation
also my fellow-workers Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke.
Amplified Bible
and from Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
American Standard Version
and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow-workers.
Bible in Basic English
And so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my brother-workers.
Hebrew Names Version
as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
International Standard Version
as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.Acts 12:12,25; 19:29; 27:2; Colossians 4:10,14, 25; 2 Timothy 4:11;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
and Markos, and Aristarkos, and Dema, and Luka, my helpers, ask for your peace.
Murdock Translation
and Mark, and Aristarchus, and Demas, and Luke, my coadjutors.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Marcus, Aristarcus, Demas, Lucas, my felowe labourers.
English Revised Version
and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow-workers.
World English Bible
as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow-labourers.
Weymouth's New Testament
and from Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
greetith thee wel, and Mark, Aristark, Demas, Lucas, myn helperis.
Update Bible Version
[and so do] Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my co-workers.
Webster's Bible Translation
Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellow-laborers.
New English Translation
Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my colaborers, greet you too.
New King James Version
as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow laborers.
New Living Translation
So do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my co-workers.
New Life Bible
Mark and Aristarchus and Demas and Luke who are workers with me say hello.
New Revised Standard
and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, - my fellow-workers.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Mark, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke, my fellow labourers.
Revised Standard Version
and so do Mark, Aristar'chus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Marcus Aristarchus Demas Lucas my helpers.
Young's Literal Translation
Markus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lukas, my fellow-workmen!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my helpers.
Mace New Testament (1729)
Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow-labourers, salute you.

Contextual Overview

8I write to you to ask you a favor. I could make a demand of you because it is the right thing to do in God's eyes, 9but I'd rather show you the same kind of love you've shown me and just simply ask you. Consider it a simple request from a friend. I'm just an old friend who is out riding pastures and looking for strays for the sake of Christ. 10I want you to give Onesimus a break. I have become like a father to him while locked up for my work. 11Onesimus has been of little value to you in the past, but now he has become something great for the both of us. 12I'm sending him back to you and my heart comes with him. 13I really wanted to keep him here to help me while I'm locked up. Because he belongs to you, it would be as if you yourself were here helping me. 14But I didn't ask you first so I'm sending him back. I really do want your help, but not if you didn't have a choice in the matter. 15He was a slave who ran away, but now he's coming back as one of Jesus's cowboys. You lost him for a while, but now you're getting him back for good. 16I don't want you to look at him like a slave anymore, but rather a brother like he is to me. You have not lost anything by this, but gained so much more because now you have a cowboy who rides for the Lord. 17If you consider us pards, welcome him home just like you would me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Marcus: Acts 12:12, Acts 12:25, Acts 13:13, Acts 15:37-39, Colossians 4:10, 2 Timothy 4:11

Aristarchus: Acts 19:29, Acts 27:2

Demas: Colossians 4:14, 2 Timothy 4:10

Lucas: 2 Timothy 4:11

my fellowlabourers: Philemon 1:1, Philemon 1:2, 2 Corinthians 8:23, Philippians 2:25, Philippians 4:3, 3 John 1:8

Reciprocal: Acts 20:4 - Aristarchus 1 Corinthians 16:20 - the brethren 2 Corinthians 13:13 - General Philippians 4:21 - The Colossians 4:11 - fellowworkers

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas,.... Marcus was Barnabas's sister's son, the son of that Mary, in whose house the church met, and prayed for Peter when in prison; whose name was John Mark, whom Saul and Barnabas took along with them to Antioch, and from thence, in their travels, to other parts; but he leaving them at Pamphylia, was the occasion of a contention between Saul and Barnabas afterwards, when returned to Antioch; the latter insisting on his going with them again, and the former refusing it on account of his departure from them; which contention rose so high that they parted upon it, Acts 12:12 though after this the apostle was reconciled to him; he approving himself to be a faithful and useful minister of the Gospel; and therefore he desires Timothy to bring him along with him, 2 Timothy 4:11 and if this epistle was written after that, he was now come to him; however, he was now with him, whether before or after: Aristarchus was a Macedonian of Thessalonica; or very likely the apostle had been the instrument of converting him there, and who followed him from thence, and attended him wherever he went; he was with him in the uproar raised by Demetrius at Ephesus, and accompanied him into Asia; went with him in his voyage to Rome, and was now a fellow prisoner there,

Acts 19:29. Demas is the same with him who is mentioned in 2 Timothy 4:10 and if this epistle is later than that, it should seem that he was restored from his fall, and was returned to the apostle. Lucas is the same with Luke the Evangelist, the beloved physician, the brother whose praise was in all the churches, and a constant companion of the apostle, in his travels; and who wrote the book called, "The Acts of the Apostles": these the apostle styles, "my fellow labourers", being all ministers of the Gospel; and this shows the apostle's great humility, so to call them, when they were far from being on an equal foot with him in office, gifts, or usefulness: and the Christian salutations of these persons are sent to Philemon, with this view, to engage him the more to attend to the apostle's request, in which they all joined.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, and Lucas - see the notes at the Epistle to the Colossians, Colossians 4:10, Colossians 4:14.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Philemon 1:24. Marcus, Aristarchus, c.] These were all acquaintances of Philemon, and probably Colossians and may be all considered as joining here with St. Paul in his request for Onesimus. Some think that Marcus was either the evangelist, or John Mark, the nephew of Barnabas, Acts 12:12; Acts 12:25. Aristarchus was probably the same with him mentioned Acts 19:29; Acts 20:4; Acts 27:2. See Colossians 4:10.

Demas — Is supposed to be the same who continued in his attachment to Paul till his last imprisonment at Rome; after which he left him for what is supposed to have been the love of the world, 2 Timothy 4:10; but see the note.

Lucas — Is supposed to be Luke the evangelist, and author of the Acts of the Apostles. On these suppositions little confidence can be placed: they may be correct; they may be otherwise.


 
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