Mark 12:9

So ◄do you know what the man who owns the vineyard will do?/I will tell you what the man who owns the vineyard will do [RHQ]►. He will come, and he will kill those evil men who were taking care of his vineyard. Then he will arrange for other people to take care of it.

Translation for Translators

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

8They seized him and killed him. Then they threw his body outside the vineyard.

10Now think carefully about these words, which you have read in the Scriptures: The men who were building the building rejected one stone. But others put that same stone in its proper place, and it has become the most important stone in the building [MET]!

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:23“When you experience those things that I do to punish you, if you still do not pay attention to me, and if you continue to oppose me,

Deuteronomy 4:26Today I am requesting everyone who is in heaven and everyone who is on the earth [MTY] to watch what you are doing. If you disobey what I am telling you, you will soon all die in the land that you will be crossing the Jordan River to occupy. You will not live very long there; Yahweh will completely get rid of many [HYP] of you.

Joshua 23:15He has given to you all the good things that he promised. In the same way, the other things that he promised, things that are not good, will also happen. He said that if you do what is evil, he will get rid of you and send you away from this good land that he has given to you.

Isaiah 5:5So, I will now tell you what I will do to Judah, the place that is like my vineyard. I will cut down the hedges, and they will be destroyed. I will tear down the walls of the cities and allow wild animals to trample the land.

Isaiah 32:15It will be like that until God pours his Spirit out on us from heaven. When that happens, the deserts will become fertile fields, and abundant crops will grow in those fertile fields.

Jeremiah 17:3So, I will allow your enemies to capture Zion, your holy hill, and all your wealth and your ◄treasures/valuable things►, and even the shrines on all those hills, because of the sins that you people have committed throughout your land.

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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