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Young's Literal Translation

Mark 12:3

and they, having taken him, did severely beat [him], and did send 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
But the farmersthey
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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.
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 speak to them in similes: `A man planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around, and digged an under-winevat, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad; 2 and he sent unto the husbandmen at the due time a servant, that from the husbandmen he may receive from the fruit of the vineyard, 3 and they, having taken him, did severely beat [him], and did send him away empty. 4 `And again he sent unto them another servant, and at that one having cast stones, they wounded [him] in the head, and sent away -- dishonoured. 5 `And again he sent another, and that one they killed; and many others, some beating, and some killing. 6 `Having yet therefore one son -- his beloved -- he sent also him unto them last, saying -- They will reverence my son; 7 and those husbandmen said among themselves -- This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and ours shall be the inheritance; 8 and having taken him, they did kill, and cast [him] forth without 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 And this Writing did ye not read: A stone that the builders rejected, it did become the head of a 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
and Abraham certainly becometh a nation great and mighty, and blessed in him have been all nations of the earth?
Genesis 27:29
peoples serve thee, and nations bow themselves to thee, be thou mighty over thy brethren, and the sons of thy mother bow themselves to thee; those who curse thee [are] cursed, and those who bless thee [are] blessed.'
Genesis 28:14
and thy seed hath been as the dust of the land, and thou hast broken forth westward, and eastward, and northward, and southward, and all families of the ground have been blessed in thee and in thy seed.
Genesis 30:27
And Laban saith unto him, `If, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes -- I have observed diligently that Jehovah doth bless me for thy sake.'
Genesis 30:30
for [it is] little which thou hast had at my appearance, and it breaketh forth into a multitude, and Jehovah blesseth thee at my coming; and now, when do I make, I also, for mine own house?'
Genesis 39:5
And it cometh to pass from the time that he hath appointed him over his house, and over all that he hath, that Jehovah blesseth the house of the Egyptian for Joseph's sake, and the blessing of Jehovah is on all that he hath, in the house, and in the field;
Exodus 23:22
for, if thou diligently hearken to his voice, and hast done all that which I speak, then I have been at enmity with thine enemies, and have distressed those distressing thee.
Numbers 24:9
He hath bent, he hath lain down as a lion, And as a lioness: who doth raise him up? He who is blessing thee [is] blessed, And he who is cursing thee [is] cursed.'
Psalms 72:17
His name is to the age, Before the sun is his name continued, And they bless themselves in him, All nations do pronounce him happy.
Matthew 25:40
`And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] to one of these my brethren -- the least -- to 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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