Mark 12:7

But the farmers said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

Text-Critical English NT

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

6Now he still had his one beloved son. He sent him to them as well, last of all, saying, ‘They will have respect for my son.’

8So they took him, killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.

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Cross References

Matthew 2:16When Herod saw that he had been fooled by the wise men, he was greatly enraged and sent men to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and in its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.

John 11:47So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a meeting of the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we going to do? For this man is doing many signs.

Acts 5:28“Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? Yet behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you are determined to bring the blood of this man upon us.”

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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