Mark 12:12
They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.
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In Context
11This was from the Lord,it is marvelous in our eyes'?"
13They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:7Nathan said to David, "You are the man. This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
1 Kings 21:17The word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
Matthew 21:45When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.
Mark 11:18The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.
Luke 20:6But if we say, 'From man,' all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet."
John 7:25Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "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 →