Mark 12:12

And they sought to take him, but feared the multitude; for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them; and they left him, and went away.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.

In Context

11this was from the Lord, and it is wondrous in our eyes?

13And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might entrap him in his words.

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Cross References

Matthew 21:45And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he spoke of them.

Mark 11:18And the scribes and the chief priests heard him; and they sought how they might destroy him; for they feared him, because all the multitude were astonished at his teaching.

Luke 20:6But if we say, From men, all the people will stone us; for they believe that John was a prophet.

John 7:25Then said some of the men of Jerusalem: Is not this he whom they seek to kill?

Matthew Henry on Mark 12:2-13

The Vineyard and Husbandmen. 1 And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. 2 And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard. 3 And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty. 4 And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones,… Read the whole commentary →

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