Mark 12:7

But those farmers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

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In The King James Version

But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.

In Context

6+ 12:6. MPr: “Against God, and His Messiah,” (Ps 2:2) is likened to a robber (Satan) who stands defiantly behind the palace of the king, and says, If I shall find the son of the king, I shall lay hold on him, and crucify him, and kill him with a cruel death. But the Holy Spirit mocks at him, “He that sits in the heavens shall laugh” (Ps 2:4, 37:13). (Ps 92:11 Midrash Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer c.28, Midrash Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer c. 28, and Yalkut vol. ii. par. 620, p. 90A). (Ps 2:2, 2:4) Therefore still having one, his agapetos ·beloved, esteemed· son, he sent him last to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

8They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.

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Cross References

Genesis 37:20Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”

Psalms 22:12Many bulls have surrounded me. 2 Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me. 1

Isaiah 53:7+ 53:7 a MP: Messiah is oppressed and afflicted but does not speak out in his own defense. (Matt 27:11-14) He was oppressed, 2 yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. 1 + 53:7 b MP: Messiah, in likeness of a sacrificial lamb, is silent before his accusers. (See also Ps 35:11). (Matt 27:12-14; John 1:29; 1 Pet 1:18-19, 2:23) As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, + 53:7. Quoted in Rev 5:6 2 and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, 2 so he didn’t open his mouth. + 53:7. Quoted in 1 Pet 2:23 1

Matthew 2:16+ 2:16 (16-18) MP: Infants will die. (Jer 31:15) Then Herod [Heroic], when he saw that he was mocked by the Magi [Conjurer] (Persian King makers, Astrologers), was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem [House of Bread] and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the Magi [Conjurer] (Persian King makers, Astrologers).

John 11:47The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees [Separated] gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

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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