Mark 12:3

But the men in the garden grabbed that work-man, and they beat him up, and they sent him back with nothing.

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2The time came for the men to pick the fruit, and the owner sent one of his work-men to get some of his fruit from the garden.

4Then the owner sent another work-man to the garden, but those men hit him on the head and said bad things to him.

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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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