Mark 12:13

Later on, the Jewish leaders sent some lawmen and some other people who were good friends with King Herod to talk to Jesus. They wanted to trick him and get him to say something wrong.

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In The King James Version

And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.

In Context

12The Jewish leaders knew that Jesus was talking about them. They wanted to arrest him, but they were frightened of the people, so they left him and walked away. And you can read this story in Matthew 22:15-22 and in Luke 20:20-26

14They said, “Teacher, we know you always want to do the right thing. You are not frightened of anyone and you do not worry about what people say about you. We know that you always speak the same way to everybody, and you always teach people about God the right way. So, can you answer this question? Is it right for us Jewish people to pay tax money to the Romans? Or is it wrong for us Jewish people to pay tax money to the Romans?”

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Cross References

Mark 3:6The lawmen went away and had a meeting with another group of Jewish men that were good friends with King Herod. King Herod was the government boss of Israel. At that meeting, they tried to work out a way to kill Jesus.

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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