Mark 12:3

3 And they seized him [and] beat [him] and sent [him] away empty-handed.

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 to them in parables: "A man planted a vineyard, and put a fence [around it], and dug a trough for the winepress, and built a watchtower, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey.

2 And he sent a slave to the tenant farmers at the proper time, so that he could collect [some] of the fruit of the vineyard from the tenant farmers.

3 And they seized him [and] beat [him] and sent [him] away empty-handed.

4 And again he sent to them another slave, and that one they struck on the head and dishonored.

5 And he sent another, and that one they killed. And [he sent] many others, [some] of whom they beat and [some] of whom they killed.

Footnotes

• [a] *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("seized") has been translated as a finite verb
• [b] *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
• [c] *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation