Mark 12:7
But those farmers said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
8And taking him they killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
Cross References
Matthew 2:16Then Herod, seeing that he had been deceived by the wise men, was greatly enraged; and he sent and executed all the boys in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had ascertained from the wise men.
John 11:47Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, “What are we doing? For this Man works many signs.
Acts 5:28saying, “Did we not give you strict orders not to continue teaching in this name? And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you want to bring on us the blood of this Man!”
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 →