Mark 12:3 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 12:3

But they seized the servant, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

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.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

Theophylact of Ohrid

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (1107)

Or, the hedge is the law, which prohibited their mingling with strangers. There follows, And went into a far country. Or else, By the first servant, understand the prophets who lived about the time of Elias, (2 Chron. 18:23.) for Zedekiah the false prophet beat Micaiah; and by the second servant whom they wounded in the head, that is, evil entreated, we may understand the prophets who lived about the time of Hosea and Isaiah; but by the third servant understand the prophets who flourished about the time of Daniel and Ezekiel.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

The verses before us contain a historical parable. The history of the Jewish nation, from the day that Israel left Egypt down to the time of the destruction of Jerusalem, is here set before us as in a mirror. Under the figure of the vineyard and the husbandmen, the Lord Jesus tells the story of God's dealings with His people for fifteen hundred years. Let us study it attentively, and apply it to ourselves. Let us observe, in the first place, God's special kindness to the Jewish Church and nation . He gave to them peculiar privileges.

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	But	G2532 →
λαβόντες	labontes	having taken	G2983 →
αὐτὸν	auton	him	G846 →
ἔδειραν	edeiran	they beat [him]	G1194 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀπέστειλαν	apesteilan	they sent [him] away	G649 →
κενόν.	kenon	empty-handed.	G2756 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Thessalonians 2:15
who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
leads to
- Acts 7:52
  Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 5:12
  Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.
- Luke 11:48–53
  So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.
- Acts 2:23
  He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.
Through
Nehemiah 9:26
But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
leads to
- 1 Kings 14:9
  You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.
- Judges 2:11–12
  And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.
Through
2 Chronicles 36:16
But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.
leads to
- Jeremiah 5:12–13
  They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.
Through
Jeremiah 29:26
‘The LORD has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada, to be the chief officer in the house of the LORD, responsible for any madman who acts like a prophet—you must put him in…
leads to
- Jeremiah 20:1–2
  When Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer and the chief official in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,