Mark 12:3 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³ But they took the slave and beat him and sent him away empty handed.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ But they took him and beat him and sent him away without anything.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.

Common English Bible

³ But they grabbed the servant, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ But they, having apprehended him, beat him and sent him away empty.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Who having laid hands on him, beat him, and sent him away empty.

Mark 12:3 Cross References

Matthew 15:22

Just then a Canaanite woman came out of that area [Note: Mark 7:26 calls her a Syrophoenician Gentile], crying, “O Lord, son of David, have pity on me. My daughter is seriously troubled by an evil spirit.”

Mark 12:2

And when the [grape harvest] season came, the owner of the farm sent a slave to the tenant farmers asking them to deliver the grape crop [to him].

Mark 12:4

Again the owner of the farm sent another slave, whom they wounded in the head and shamefully abused.

Acts 7:52

Which one of the prophets did your forefathers not persecute? They [even] killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One [i.e., Jesus], whom you people betrayed and murdered.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed the Lord Jesus and the [Old Testament] prophets and also drove us [apostles] out [of Thessalonica and Berea. See Acts 17]. They are not pleasing to God and are hostile to all people,