Mark 12:7
But those husbandmen said among themselves: This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
8And they took, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
Cross References
Matthew 2:16Then Herod, seeing that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly enraged; and he sent forth, and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly learned from the wise men.
John 11:47Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said: What do we, seeing that this man works many signs?
Acts 5:28saying: Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
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 →