Mark 12:4 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁴ Again the owner of the farm sent another slave, whom they wounded in the head and shamefully abused.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Again he sent to them another bond servant, and they stoned him and wounded him in the head and treated him shamefully [sending him away with insults].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And again he sent unto them another servant; and him they wounded in the head, and handled shamefully.

Common English Bible

⁴ Again the landowner sent another servant to them, but they struck him on the head and treated him disgracefully.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And again, he sent another servant to them. And they wounded him on the head, and they treated him with contempt.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And again he sent to them another servant; and him they wounded in the head, and used him reproachfully.

Mark 12:4 Cross References

Mark 12:3

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

Mark 12:5

He sent [still] another slave, whom they killed. He continued sending many more slaves; they beat some and killed others.

Luke 20:11

Then he sent out another slave [i.e., to arrange for receiving the crop], but the tenant farmers beat him also, shamefully abused him and sent him away empty handed [as well].