Mark 12:6

The owner of the garden had one more person to send. He said to himself, ‘I will try one more time. I will send my son. I love him and those men in the garden will respect him.’

Barkly (portions)

In The King James Version

Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.

In Context

5Then the owner sent another man, and this time the workers killed him. Again and again the owner sent his men to get his share of the fruit. But every time, the workers in the garden would not give anything to the owner's men. They bashed some of them and they killed others.

7But when the workers in the garden saw the owner's son, they said to each other, ‘When that old man dies, this son will get everything. Why don't we kill him so that we can have the garden for ourselves?’

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Cross References

Genesis 22:2Then God said, “I know that you love your special son Isaac, but I want you to take him to the country called Moriah. On one of the big hills that I will show you, I want you to show how much you respect me. I want you to kill Isaac there and burn his body on a table made of stones called an altar.”

Genesis 44:20And we answered you and said, ‘Yes we have an old father, and we have a younger brother who was born when our father was very old.’ We used to have another brother, but he is dead. Benjamin is the only child left from that mother and so our father loves him very much.

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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