Mark 12:3 (DRB)

Passage

Who, having laid hands on him, beat and sent him away empty.

Nearby Context

Mark 12:1 And he began to speak to them in parables: A certain man planted a vineyard and made a hedge about it and dug a place for the winefat and built a tower and let it to husbandmen: and went into a far country.

Mark 12:2 And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant to receive of the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.

Mark 12:3 Who, having laid hands on him, beat and sent him away empty.

Mark 12:4 And again he sent to them another servant: and him they wounded in the head and used him reproachfully.

Mark 12:5 And again he sent another, and him they killed: and many others, of whom some they beat, and others they killed.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "having", "laid", "hands", "beat", "sent", "away", and "empty". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "having" and "laid", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 2's "And at the season he sent to..." into verse 4's "And again he sent to them another...", so "having" and "laid" belong inside that flow. In Mark context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "having" and "laid" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.