Mark 12:3 - Forerunner Commentary

Mark 12:3

The Parable of the Wicked Vinedressers

1 Then ^aHe began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a place for the wine vat and built a tower. And he leased it to¹ vinedressers and went into a far country.

2 Now at vintage-time he sent a servant to the vinedressers, that he might receive some of the fruit of the vineyard from the vinedressers.

3 And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

4 Again he sent them another servant,¹ and at him they threw stones, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.

5 And again he sent another, and him they killed; and many others, ^abeating some and killing some.

6 Therefore still having one son, his beloved, he also sent him to them last, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

7 But those vinedressers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

8 So they took him and ^akilled him and cast him out of the vineyard.

Verse Comparison: Mark 12:3

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American Standard Version
And they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.

Amplified® Bible
But they took him and beat him and sent him away without anything.

Contemporary English Version
The renters grabbed the servant. They beat him up and sent him away without a thing.

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

Good News Bible
The tenants grabbed the slave, beat him, and sent him back without a thing.

International Standard Version
But the farmers grabbed the servant, beat him, and sent him back empty-handed.

King James Version
And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.

New American Standard Bible
"They took him, and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

New International Version
But they seized him, 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.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"They took him, and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

Young's Literal Translation
and they, having taken him, did severely beat `him', and did send him away empty.

New English Translation
But¹ those tenants² seized his slave,³ beat him,⁴ and sent him away empty-handed.⁵

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