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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Mark 12:3

and, taking him, they 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.
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.
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 be speaking unto them, in parables, - A man planted, a vineyard, and put round it a wall, and digged a wine-vat, and built a tower, - and let it out to husbandmen; and left home. 2 And he sent forth, unto the husbandmen, in the season, a servant, that, from the husbandmen, he might receive of the fruits of the vineyard; 3 and, taking him, they beat him, and sent him away, empty. 4 And, again, sent he forth unto them, another servant; and, him, they smote on the head, and dishonoured. 5 And another sent he forth; and, him, they slew. And many others; some, indeed beating, and, others, slaying. 6 Yet one, had he, a son beloved: he sent him forth last unto them, saying - They will pay deference unto my son! 7 But, those husbandmen, unto themselves, said - This, is the heir: Come! let us slay him, and, ours, shall be, the inheritance. 8 And, taking, they slew him, and cast him forth outside the vineyard. 9 What will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come, and destroy the husbandmen, and let the vineyard unto others. 10 Have ye not, this scripture, read - A stone which the builders rejected, the same, hath become 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
when, Abraham, shall surely 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, Become thou lord to thy brethren, And let the sons of thy mother bow down to thee, - He that curseth thee, be accursed! And he that blesseth thee, be blessed!
Genesis 28:14
And thy seed shall become as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt break forth westward and eastward, and northward and southward, - And all the families of the ground shall be blessed in thee and in thy seed.
Genesis 30:27
And Laban said unto him, If, I pray thee, I have found favour in thine eyes, …I have divined that Yahweh hath blessed me for thy sake.
Genesis 30:30
For it was, little I that thou hadst - before I came and then it brake forth into multitude, and Yahweh blessed thee at my every step. Now, therefore, when am, I, also to do something for my own house?
Genesis 39:5
And it came to pass from the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had, that Yahweh blessed the house of the Egyptian, for Joseph's sake, - yea it came to pass, that the blessing of Yahweh, was with all that he had, in the house and in the field;
Exodus 23:22
But if thou wilt indeed hearken, to his voice, and so wilt do all that I may speak, then will I be an enemy to thine enemies, and an adversary to thine adversaries;
Numbers 24:9
He hath knelt - hath lain down, Like a strong lion, yea like a lioness, Who shall rouse him up? Such as bless thee are each one blessed, But, such, as curse thee, are each one cursed.
Psalms 72:17
May his Name he age-abiding, In the presence of the sun, let his Name flourish, - And may all the families of the ground bless themselves in him, All nations, pronounce him happy!
Matthew 25:40
And, answering, the king will say unto them: Verily, I say unto you - Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my least brethren, unto me, ye did it.

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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