Mark 12:3
 Mark 12:3 
New International Version (©2011)
But they seized him, beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But the farmers grabbed the servant, beat him up, and sent him back empty-handed.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And 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.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But they took him, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

International Standard Version (©2012)
But the farmers grabbed the servant, beat him, and sent him back empty-handed.

NET Bible (©2006)
But those tenants seized his slave, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“But they beat him and sent him away empty.”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The workers took the servant, beat him, and sent him back with nothing.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty handed.

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

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who having laid hands on him, beat him, and sent him away empty.

Darby Bible Translation
But they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.

English Revised 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.

Weymouth New Testament
But they seized him, beat him cruelly and sent him away empty-handed.

World English Bible
They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.

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

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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:

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Geneva Study Bible

And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.


Mark 12:3 Parallel Commentaries
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The Parable of the Wicked Tenants
1And he began to speak to them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and dig a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to farmers, and went into a far country. 2And at the season he sent to the farmers a servant, that he might receive from the farmers of the fruit of the vineyard. 3And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.

Matthew 15:22 A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, "Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly."
Mark 12:2 At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.
Mark 12:4 Then he sent another servant to them; they struck this man on the head and treated him shamefully.