Mark 12:3
But they took him, beat him, and sent him away with nothing.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
In Context
4Again he sent to them another servant, and they wounded him in the head and treated him shamefully.
Cross References
1 Kings 18:13Has it not been told to you, my master, what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, how I hid one hundred of Yahweh's prophets by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water?
1 Kings 19:14Elijah replied, “I have been very zealous for Yahweh, God of hosts, because the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, destroyed your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. Now I, only I, am left and they are also trying to take my life.”
2 Chronicles 16:10Then Asa was angry with the seer; he put him into prison, for he was angry with him over this matter. At the same time, Asa oppressed some of the people.
2 Chronicles 36:16But they mocked God's messengers, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no help for it.
Jeremiah 2:30I have punished your people in vain. They would not accept discipline. 1 Your sword has devoured your prophets like a destructive lion! 1
Jeremiah 26:20Meanwhile there was another man who prophesied in the name of Yahweh—Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath Jearim—he also prophesied against this city and this land, agreeing with all of Jeremiah's words.
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 →