Mark 12:7

But those tenants said to one another ‘Here is the heir! Come, let us kill him, and his inheritance will be ours.’

Twentieth Century New Testament

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

6He had still one son, who was very dear to him; and him he sent to them last of all. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.

8So they seized him, and killed him, and threw his body outside the vineyard.

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Cross References

Matthew 2:16When Herod found that he had been trifled with by the Astrologers, he was very angry. He sent and put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and the whole of that neighbourhood, who were two years old or under, guided by the date which he had ascertained from the Astrologers.

John 11:47Upon this the Chief Priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the High Council, and said: “What are we to do, now that this man is giving so many signs?

Acts 5:28“We gave you strict orders,” he said, “not to teach in this Name. Yet you have actually flooded Jerusalem with your teaching, and you want to make us responsible for the death of this man.”

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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