Mark 12:12
And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.
King James Version with Apocrypha
In The King James Version
In Context
11This was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
13And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:7And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;
1 Kings 21:17And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
Matthew 21:45And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.
Mark 11:18And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.
Luke 20:6But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.
John 7:25Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?
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 →