<p>21:35&nbsp;<em>And the husbandmen took his servants and beat one-&nbsp;</em>When the world reviled him, Paul saw himself as the beaten prophets Jesus had spoken about (2 Cor. 11:24,25 = Mt. 21:35).&nbsp;Mk. 12:4 adds that the last servant was &ldquo;wounded in the head&rdquo;, surely a reference to the beheading of John the Baptist and shameful treatment of his severed head.</p><p><em>And killed another and stoned another</em>- There are few accounts of Old Testament prophets being killed or stoned. But beating, stoning and killing are Mosaic punishments for apostasy, and so the idea may be that Israel excused their lack of spiritual fruitfulness by judging as apostate the prophets who demanded this of them. This is typical- the unspiritual transfer their own anger with themselves and awareness of their own coming judgment onto others, whom they condemn as worthy of judgment and punishment.</p>