Mark 11:3-5. The description of the maltreatment of the servants differs in all three accounts, showing that no special interpretation is to be given to the different sendings. The actual suffering of the servants is brought out by Mark, the climax being the ‘killing some.'

Him they wounded in the head (Mark 11:4). The servants are represented as not even coming into the vineyard; the first one was stoned at a distance, with the purpose of killing. The gradation is: beating, trying to kill, actually killing.

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Old Testament