Markus 12:2

12:2 At harvest time he sent a slave ¹  to the tenants to collect from them ²  his portion of the crop. ³ 

Markus 12:4

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

Markus 14:69

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

[12:2]  ¹ tn See the note on the word “slave” in 10:44.

[12:2]  sn This slave (along with the others) represent the prophets God sent to the nation, who were mistreated and rejected.

[12:2]  ² tn Grk “from the tenants,” but this is redundant in English, so the pronoun (“them”) was used in the translation.

[12:2]  ³ tn Grk “from the fruits of the vineyard.”

[12:4]  ⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the tenants’ mistreatment of the first slave.