Mark 12:4

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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

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].