Mark 12:3

Plain English Version

But the men in the garden grabbed that work-man, and they beat him up, and they sent him back with nothing.

Cross References

Mark 12:2

The time came for the men to pick the fruit, and the owner sent one of his work-men to get some of his fruit from the garden.

Mark 12:4

Then the owner sent another work-man to the garden, but those men hit him on the head and said bad things to him.

Acts 7:52

God sent men to your grand-fathers a long time ago to tell them his messages, but they beat up God’s men. God got some messengers to say that he will send his really good man to us, but they even killed those messengers from God. Then that really good man came to us. He was Jesus. But you mob told the people to kill him. You were the ones that murdered him.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

That Jewish mob didn’t want to believe God, and they made trouble for Jesus. You see, a long time ago, it was the Jewish mob that killed the men that told God’s messages, and it was the Jewish mob that killed our leader Jesus too. And it was the same for us. Wherever we told people about Jesus, the Jewish mob chased us out of those places. They make God angry. They work against everyone.