Mark 12:3

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

Twentieth Century New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2At the proper time he sent a servant to the tenants, to receive from them a share of the produce of the vintage;

4A second time the owner sent a servant to them; this man, too, the tenants struck on the head, and insulted.

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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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