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Hebrew Names Version

Mark 12:3

They took him, 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.
Darby Translation
But they took him, and beat [him], and sent [him] away empty.
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.
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 He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, set a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country. 2 When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard. 3 They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty. 4 Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated. 5 Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and killing some. 6 Therefore he had yet one, a beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' 7 But those farmers said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' 8 They took him, killed him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard. 9 What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. 10 Haven't you even read this Scripture: 'The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner.

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
seeing that Avraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the eretz will be blessed in him?
Genesis 27:29
Let peoples serve you, Nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, Let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, Blessed be everyone who blesses you."
Genesis 28:14
Your seed will be as the dust of the eretz, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the eretz be blessed.
Genesis 30:27
Lavan said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that the LORD has blessed me for your sake."
Genesis 30:30
For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. The LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"
Genesis 39:5
It happened from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Mitzrian's house for Yosef's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.
Exodus 23:22
But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.
Numbers 24:9
He couched, he lay down as a lion, As a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Blessed be everyone who blesses you, Cursed be everyone who curses you.
Psalms 72:17
His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.
Matthew 25:40
"The King will answer them, 'Most assuredly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did 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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