Mark 12:5

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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

Cross References

Matthew 22:6

But the rest of them grabbed his servants, physically abused them and [finally] killed them.

Matthew 23:37

“O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [you people] who murdered the prophets and stoned those who were sent to you! How often I have wanted to gather you people together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

Matthew 5:12

Be happy and very glad, for your reward in heaven will be great. For they persecuted the prophets [who lived] before you in the same way.

Mark 12:4

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

Mark 12:6

The owner had one more person [left to send], his dearly loved son. [So] he sent him to them last of all, reasoning to himself, ‘[Surely] they will treat my son with respect.’

Mark 9:13

But I tell you, Elijah has [already] come, and they did to him what they wanted to, just like it was written about him [in the Scriptures].”

Luke 6:36

You people should be merciful just like your Father is merciful.