Mark 12:4

A second time the owner sent a servant to them; this man, too, the tenants struck on the head, and insulted.

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In The King James Version

And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.

In Context

3but they seized him, and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

5He sent another, but him they killed; and so with many others – some they beat and some they killed.

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Cross References

Psalms 68:21Yes, God will shatter the head of his foes the rough scalp of those who strut on in their sins.

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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