Mark 12:3

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

Mark 12:3 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 12:3

And they caught him
This clause is left out in the Syriac and Persic versions, though it seems proper to be retained; and denotes the rudeness and violence with which the prophets of the Lord were used by the Jewish nation:

and beat him:
either with their fists, or with rods, and scourges, till the skin was flayed off:

and sent him away empty;
without any fruit to carry with him, or give an account of, to the owner of the vineyard.

Mark 12:3 In-Context

1 And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard and set a hedge about it and dug a place for the winefat and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went far away.

2 And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a slave that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.

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

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

5 And again he sent another, and him they killed and many others, beating some and killing some.