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The Darby Translation

Mark 12:3

But they took him, and beat [him], and sent [him] away empty.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Capital and Labor;   Church;   God Continued...;   Husbandman;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Lease;   Malfeasance in Office;   Reproof;   Self-Condemnation;   Servant;   Unfaithfulness;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Business Life;   Capital and Labour;   Labour;   Labour Troubles;   Land;   Real Estate;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Death of Christ;   Faith;   Mission;   Suffering;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Agriculture;   Mark, the Gospel of;   Parables;   Patience;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Mss;   Peter, First Epistle of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Allegory;   Corner-Stone ;   Fellowship (2);   Husbandman ;   Justice (2);   Lord's Supper. (I.);   Parable;   Persecution;   Preaching Christ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Empty;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Empty;   Mark, the Gospel According to;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But they took him, beat
King James Version (1611)
And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away emptie.
King James Version
And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
English Standard Version
And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
New American Standard Bible
"And they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
New Century Version
But the farmers grabbed the servant and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
Amplified Bible
"They took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They took him, and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
Legacy Standard Bible
And they took him, and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
Berean Standard Bible
But they seized the servant, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
Contemporary English Version
The renters grabbed the servant. They beat him up and sent him away without a thing.
Complete Jewish Bible
But they took him, beat him up and sent him away empty-handed.
Easy-to-Read Version
But the farmers grabbed the servant and beat him. They sent him away with nothing.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But they tooke him, and beat him, & sent him away emptie.
George Lamsa Translation
But they beat him, and sent him away empty.
Good News Translation
The tenants grabbed the slave, beat him, and sent him back without a thing.
Lexham English Bible
And they seized him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
Literal Translation
But taking him, they beat him , and sent him away empty.
American Standard Version
And they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
Bible in Basic English
And they took him, and gave him blows, and sent him away with nothing.
Hebrew Names Version
They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.
International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
But they beat him, and sent him away empty.
Murdock Translation
And they beat him, and sent him away empty.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they caught hym, and beat hym, and sent hym away emptie.
English Revised Version
And they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
World English Bible
They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
Weymouth's New Testament
But they seized him, beat him cruelly and sent him away empty-handed.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei token hym, and beeten, and leften hym voide.
Update Bible Version
And they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they caught [him], and beat him and sent [him] away empty.
New English Translation
But those tenants seized his slave, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
New King James Version
And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
New Living Translation
But the farmers grabbed the servant, beat him up, and sent him back empty-handed.
New Life Bible
The farmers took him and beat him. They sent him back with nothing.
New Revised Standard
But they seized him, and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, taking him, they beat him, and sent him away, empty.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Who, having laid hands on him, beat and sent him away empty.
Revised Standard Version
And they took him and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And they caught him and bet him and sent him agayne emptye.
Young's Literal Translation
and they, having taken him, did severely beat [him], and did send him away empty.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But they toke him, and bet him, and sent him awaye emptye.
Mace New Testament (1729)
but they seized on him, and beat him, and sent him home empty.
THE MESSAGE
"They grabbed him, beat him up, and sent him off empty-handed. So he sent another servant. That one they tarred and feathered. He sent another and that one they killed. And on and on, many others. Some they beat up, some they killed.
Simplified Cowboy Version
But the cowboys on the ranch grabbed the cowboy and beat the crap out of him and sent him back without a single calf.

Contextual Overview

1 And he began to say to them in parables, A man planted a vineyard, and made a fence round [it] and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country. 2 And he sent a bondman to the husbandmen at the season, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard. 3 But they took him, and beat [him], and sent [him] away empty. 4 And again he sent to them another bondman; and [at] him they [threw stones, and] struck [him] on the head, and sent [him] away with insult. 5 And [again] he sent another, and him they killed; and many others, beating some and killing some. 6 Having yet therefore one beloved son, he sent also him to them the last, saying, They will have respect for my son. 7 But those husbandmen said to one another, This is the heir: come, let us kill him and the inheritance will be ours. 8 And they took him and killed him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard. 9 What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. 10 Have ye not even read this scripture, The stone which they that builded rejected, this has become the corner-stone:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they: 1 Kings 18:4, 1 Kings 18:13, 1 Kings 19:10, 1 Kings 19:14, 1 Kings 22:27, 2 Chronicles 16:10, 2 Chronicles 24:19-21, 2 Chronicles 36:16, Nehemiah 9:26, Jeremiah 2:30, Jeremiah 20:2, Jeremiah 26:20-24, Jeremiah 29:26, Jeremiah 37:15, Jeremiah 37:16, Jeremiah 38:4-6, Matthew 23:34-37, Luke 11:47-51, Luke 13:33, Luke 13:34, Acts 7:52, 1 Thessalonians 2:15, Hebrews 11:36, Hebrews 11:37

and sent: Jeremiah 44:4, Jeremiah 44:5, Jeremiah 44:16, Daniel 9:10, Daniel 9:11, Zechariah 7:9-13, Luke 20:10-12

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 16:16 - and they shall Matthew 23:37 - thou

Cross-References

Genesis 18:18
Since Abraham shall indeed become a great and mighty nation; and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him.
Genesis 27:29
Let peoples serve thee, And races bow down to thee. Be lord over thy brethren, And let thy mother's sons bow down to thee. Cursed be they that curse thee, And blessed be they that bless thee.
Genesis 28:14
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Genesis 30:27
And Laban said to him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes—I have discovered that Jehovah has blessed me for thy sake.
Genesis 30:30
For it was little that thou hadst before me, and it is increased to a multitude, and Jehovah has blessed thee from the time I came; and now, when shall I also provide for my house?
Genesis 39:5
And it came to pass from the time he had set him over his house and all that he had, that Jehovah blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of Jehovah was on all that he had in the house and in the field.
Exodus 23:22
But if thou shalt diligently hearken unto his voice, and do all that I shall say, then I will be an enemy to thine enemies, and an adversary to thine adversaries.
Numbers 24:9
He stooped, he lay down like a lion, and like a lioness: who will stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
Psalms 72:17
His name shall endure for ever; his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and [men] shall bless themselves in him; all nations shall call him blessed.
Matthew 25:40
And the King answering shall say to them, Verily, I say to you, Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they caught him,.... This clause is left out in the Syriac and Persic versions, though it seems proper to be retained; and denotes the rudeness and violence with which the prophets of the Lord were used by the Jewish nation:

and beat him: either with their fists, or with rods, and scourges, till the skin was flayed off:

and sent him away empty; without any fruit to carry with him, or give an account of, to the owner of the vineyard.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this parable explained in the notes at Matthew 21:33-46.

See this parable explained in the notes at Matthew 21:33-46.


 
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