Mark 12:5

Later he sent another servant. That man they killed. They mistreated many other servants whom he sent. Some they beat and some they killed.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.

In Context

4Later the one who owned the vineyard sent another servant to them. But they beat that one on his head, and they insulted him.

6The man still had one other person with him. It was his son. He loved him very much. So, finally he sent his son to them because he thought that they would respect him and give him some of the grapes.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 7:25From the day that your ancestors left Egypt until now, I have continued to send my prophets to you.

Matthew 21:35But the renters seized the servants. They beat one of them, they killed another one, and killed another one of them by throwing stones at him.

Matthew 23:37“O people of Jerusalem [MTY, APO], you killed the prophets who lived long ago, and you killed others whom God sent to you. You killed them by throwing stones at them [DOU]! Many times I wanted to gather you together to protect you, like a hen gathers her young chicks under her wings [MET]. But you did not want me to do that.

Luke 6:22God is pleased with you when other people hate you, when they will not let you join them, when they insult you, when they say that you are evil because you believe in me, the one who came from heaven.

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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