Mark 12:9

Then Jesus asked the people that were listening to him, “What do you think the owner will do? I tell you, the owner will go to the garden and kill all the men that worked there. Then he will get other people to work in the garden for him.

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In The King James Version

What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.

In Context

8So they grabbed the young man, killed him and dumped his body out of the garden.”

10Here is another story for you to think about, it is in God's book for you to read. ‘Some workmen built a house out of big stones, but those workmen thought one of those stones was rubbish, so they would not use it. But they were wrong. God has made that stone the most important stone in the building.

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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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