Luke 20:11

11 And he proceeded to send another slave, but they beat and dishonored that one also, [and] sent [him] away empty-handed.

Luke 20:11 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 20:11

And again he sent another servant
Or set of prophets in after times, and yet before the Babylonish captivity:

and they beat him also;
as they had done the other; they continued in their malpractices, yea increased in them:

and entreated him shamefully;
putting him to open shame, using him in a very ignominious and shameful manner, which it was a shame to relate, and which was shameful for them to do:

and sent him away empty;
as they had done the other.

Luke 20:11 In-Context

9 And he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time.

10 And at the proper time he sent a slave to the tenant farmers, so that they would give him [some] of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenant farmers sent him away empty-handed [after] beating [him].

11 And he proceeded to send another slave, but they beat and dishonored that one also, [and] sent [him] away empty-handed.

12 And he proceeded to send a third, but they wounded [and] threw out this one also.

13 So the owner of the vineyard said, 'What should I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.'

Footnotes

• [a] *Here "[and]" is supplied because the two previous participles ("beat" and "dishonored") have been translated as finite verbs
• [b] *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation