Mark 12:3

And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.

In Context

2And at harvest time he sent a servant to the farmers, in order that he might receive his part from the fruit of the vineyard.

4Again he sent them another servant, and that one they wounded in the head with stones, and they sent him away shamefully treated.

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Matthew Henry on Mark 12:2-13

The Vineyard and Husbandmen. 1 And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. 2 And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard. 3 And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty. 4 And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones,… Read the whole commentary →

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