Mark 12:5
in Mark 12He sent still another, and this one they killed. He sent many others; some they beat and others they killed.
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ASV
And he sent another; and him they killed: and many others; beating some, and killing some.
KJV
And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.
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This verse in Mark 12
Commentary
11 notes on this verseOr, 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.
This site's exposition
he sent a servant to the tenants
on Mark 12:2-5
The owner keeps sending instead of acting at once, and of the many others sent, some they beat and others they killed. It is a picture of God's patience through generations of prophets Israel refused and at times killed.
This site's exposition
this one they killed
Bede reads the third servant and his companions as the whole band of the prophets, and asks which of them Israel did not persecute. Gill thinks the many others may include the faithful of the Maccabean years, pointing to Hebrews 11:37. The owner still sends more after the first death.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church4 voices
(ubi sup.) It goes on, And he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; heating some, and killing some. By the third servant and his companions, understand the band of the prophets. But which of the prophets did they not persecute? In these three kinds of servants, as the Lord Himself elsewhere pronounces, may be included in a figure all the doctors under the law, when He says, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning Me. (Luke 24:44)
The vineyard signifies the Jewish people, which the Lord planted: "Protect," it is said, "that which Thy right hand hath planted" (Ps. 79:16), and Moses says: "Bring him in and plant him in the mountain of Thine inheritance" (Ex. 15:17). By the "hedge" is understood …
The servants who were sent were the prophets, the fruit of the vineyard is obedience; some of the prophets were beaten, others wounded, others slain. Wherefore it goes on, And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
And again he sent another, and they killed him, and many others, beating some and killing others. A third servant with his companions, understand a chorus of prophets, who with continuous attestations confronted the people and predicted the evils that were imminent for this vineyard. …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And again he sent another,.... That is, another servant, or set of men, it may be in the times of the Maccabees, who were used in a very inhuman manner; see Heb 11:37; and him they killed; either with the sword, or by inflicting some capital punishment, as stoning, strangling, &c. and many others; that is, either the owner of the vineyard sent many other servants, or the husbandmen ill used many others that were sent to them: beating some; with their hands, or with scourges; and killing some; in one or other of the above ways.
3 more voices on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
It was no wonder if those who abused the prophets, abused Christ himself. God did at length send them his Son, his well-beloved; it was therefore so much the greater kindness in him to send him; as in Jacob to send Joseph to visit his brethren, Gen. xxxvii.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
J.C. Ryle1816–1900
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.
A commentator
J.C. Ryle1816–1900
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)
proposed
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. He dealt with them as a man deals with a piece of land which he separates and hedges in for "a vineyard." He gave them good laws and ordinances. He planted them in a goodly land, and cast out seven nations before them. He passed by greater and mightier nations to show them favor. He let alone Egypt, and Assyria, and Greece, and Rome, and showered down mercies on a few million people in Palestine. The vineyard of the Lord was the house of Israel. No family under heaven ever received so many signal and distinguishing privileges as the family of Abraham. And we too, who live in Great Britain, can we say that we have received no special mercies from God? We cannot say so. Why are we not a heathen country, like China? Why are we not a land of idolaters, like Hindostan? We owe it all to the distinguishing favor of God. It is not for our goodness and worthiness, but of God's free grace, that England is what England is among the nations of the earth. Let us be thankful for our mercies, and know the hand from which they come. Let us not be high-minded, but humble, lest we provoke God to take our mercies away. If Israel had peculiar national privileges, so also has England. Let Englishmen mark this well, and take heed lest that which happened to Israel should happen also to them.
The words behind it
14 Greek wordsEvery Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Greek | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| καὶ | kai | And | G2532 → | 9120 times |
| ἄλλον | allon | another | G243 → | 155 times |
| ἀπέστειλεν· | apesteilen | He sent; | G649 → | 132 times |
| κἀκεῖνον | kakeinon | and him | G2532 →G1565 → | 260 times |
| ἀπέκτειναν, | apekteinan | they killed, | G615 → | 74 times |
| καὶ | kai | also | G2532 → | 9120 times |
| πολλοὺς | pollous | many | G4183 → | 367 times |
| ἄλλους, | allous | others, | G243 → | 155 times |
| οὓς | hous | some | G3739 → | 1405 times |
| μὲν | men | indeed | G3303 → | 176 times |
| δέροντες, | derontes | beating, | G1194 → | 15 times |
| οὓς | hous | some | G3739 → | 1405 times |
| δὲ | de | however | G1161 → | 2765 times |
| ἀποκτέννοντες. | apoktennontes | killing. | G615 → | 74 times |
καὶAnd
kaiG2532 →9120 times
ἄλλονanother
allonG243 →155 times
ἀπέστειλεν·He sent;
apesteilenG649 →132 times
κἀκεῖνονand him
ἀπέκτειναν,they killed,
apekteinanG615 →74 times
καὶalso
kaiG2532 →9120 times
πολλοὺςmany
pollousG4183 →367 times
ἄλλους,others,
allousG243 →155 times
οὓςsome
housG3739 →1405 times
μὲνindeed
menG3303 →176 times
δέροντες,beating,
derontesG1194 →15 times
οὓςsome
housG3739 →1405 times
δὲhowever
deG1161 →2765 times
ἀποκτέννοντες.killing.
apoktennontesG615 →74 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Matthew 5:12Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.
it leads to
- Luke 6:23
Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For their fathers treated the prophets in the same way.
- James 1:2
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,
- Colossians 3:24
because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
- 1 Peter 4:13
But rejoice that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed at the revelation of His glory.
- Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church.
- Luke 6:23
Through
Luke 6:36Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
it leads to
- Ephesians 5:1–2
Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,
- Ephesians 5:1–2
Through
Matthew 23:37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you…
it leads to
- Luke 13:34–35
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you…
- Psalms 91:4
He will cover you with His feathers; under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and rampart.
- Luke 13:34–35
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Gospels; Bede, Catena Aurea by Aquinas; Bede, On the Gospel of Mark; J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition); John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Pseudo-Jerome, Catena Aurea by Aquinas; Theophylact of Ohrid, Catena Aurea by Aquinas and Theophylact of Ohrid, Commentary on Mark.