Mark 12:2
Context12:2 At harvest time he sent a slave 1 to the tenants to collect from them 2 his portion of the crop. 3
Mark 12:4
Context12:4 So 4 he sent another slave to them again. This one they struck on the head and treated outrageously.
Mark 14:47
Context14:47 One of the bystanders drew his sword and struck the high priest’s slave, 5 cutting off his ear.
Mark 14:66
Context14:66 Now 6 while Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the high priest’s slave girls 7 came by.
Mark 14:69
Context14:69 When the slave girl saw him, she began again to say to the bystanders, “This man is one of them.”
1 tn 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.
2 tn Grk “from the tenants,” but this is redundant in English, so the pronoun (“them”) was used in the translation.
3 tn Grk “from the fruits of the vineyard.”
4 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the tenants’ mistreatment of the first slave.
5 tn See the note on the word “slave” in 10:44.
6 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.
7 tn The Greek term here is παιδίσκη (paidiskh), referring to a slave girl or slave woman.