Mark 12:3
And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
Cross-reference
1 Kings 18:4 shows Jezebel killing prophets of the LORD, echoing the violence against the servant in the parable.
1 Kings 18:13 repeats the account of hiding prophets from Jezebel's persecution, paralleling the servant's danger.
Jeremiah 20:2 records Pashhur beating Jeremiah—a direct historical parallel to the beating of the servant in Jesus' story.
Jeremiah 37:15 describes Jeremiah being beaten and imprisoned—matching the servant's beating and empty-handed dismissal.
Matthew 23:34-37 records Jesus lamenting that Jerusalem kills prophets—the same pattern he portrays in the parable.
Luke 11:47 condemns building tombs for prophets while your fathers killed them—directly linking to the rejection in Jesus' story.
Luke 13:34 names Jerusalem as killing prophets and stoning those sent—the exact pattern shown in the parable's servant.
Luke 20:10-12 gives the parallel account of this same parable, with the same sequence of servants being mistreated.
Acts 7:52 accuses Israel of persecuting and killing all the prophets—the same pattern the parable depicts through the servant.
1 Thessalonians 2:15 states the Jews killed the prophets—the mistreatment the parable's servant suffers.
Matthew 23:37 explicitly names Jerusalem as the one who kills the prophets — the very accusation underlying this parable.
Hebrews 11:37 continues listing violent deaths of God's faithful—similar to the mistreatment of the parable's servant.