Mark 12:2

12:2 At harvest time he sent a slave¹ to the tenants to collect from them² his portion of the crop.³

Mark 12:4

12:4 So⁴ he sent another slave to them again. This one they struck on the head and treated outrageously.

14:47 One of the bystanders drew his sword and struck the high priest’s slave,⁵ cutting off his ear.

Peter’s Denials

14:66 Now⁶ while Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the high priest’s slave girls⁷ came by.

14:69 When the slave girl saw him, she began again to say to the bystanders, “This man is one of them.”

¹tn See the note on the word “slave” in 10:44.

sn This slave (along with the others) represent the prophets God sent to the nation, who were mistreated and rejected.

²tn Grk “from the tenants,” but this is redundant in English, so the pronoun (“them”) was used in the translation.

³tn Grk “from the fruits of the vineyard.”

⁴tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the tenants’ mistreatment of the first slave.

⁵tn See the note on the word “slave” in 10:44.

⁶tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.

⁷tn The Greek term here is παιδίσκη (paidiskh), referring to a slave girl or slave woman.