Mark 12:7
But the husbandmen said to one another, this is the heir, Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
8And they took him, and killed Him too, casting him out of the vineyard.
Cross References
Matthew 2:16Then Herod, when he saw that he was baffled by the wise-men, was very much enraged; and he sent and slew all the male-children in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly inquired of the wise-men.
John 11:47Therefore the chief priests and the pharisees held a council and said, What are we doing? for this man worketh many miracles.
Acts 5:28saying, Did not we strictly charge you not to teach in this name? and behold ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and would bring this man's blood 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 →