Mark 12:9

Mark 12:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
• New International Version (NIV)“What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.
• English Standard Version (ESV)What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Therefore what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vinedressers, and give the vineyard to others.

Context of Mark 12:9

7But those tenants said to each other, ‘This man is the heir! Come on, let us kill him [and destroy the evidence], and his inheritance will be ours!’ 8So they took him and killed him, and threw his body outside the vineyard. What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants, and will give the vineyard to others. 10Have you not even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders regarded as unworthy and rejected, This [very stone] has become the chief Cornerstone 11This came about from the Lord, And it is marvelous and wonderful in our eyes’?”

Mark 12:9 word by word

τί οὖν ποιήσει ὁ κύριος τοῦ ἀμπελῶνος; ἐλεύσεται καὶ ἀπολέσει τοὺς γεωργοὺς καὶ δώσει τὸν ἀμπελῶνα ἄλλοις.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Whatτίςtis · which?G5101
• shallὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• shallκύριοςkurios · lord: GodG2962
• thereforeοὖνoun · therefore/thenG3767
• of the vineyardἀμπελώνampelōn · vineyardG290
• doποιέωpoieō · to do/make: doG4160
• he will comeἔρχομαιerchomai · to come/goG2064
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• destroyἀπολλύωapollumi · to destroyG622
• the husbandmenγεωργόςgeōrgos · farmerG1092
• will giveδίδωμιdidōmi · to giveG1325
• unto othersἄλλοςallos · anotherG243

Cross-references for Mark 12:9

• Matthew 21:40Now when the owner of the vineyard comes back, what will he do to those tenants?”
• Leviticus 26:15if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul rejects My ordinances, so that you will not [obediently] do all My commandments, and in this way break My covenant,
• Deuteronomy 4:26I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You shall not live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed.
• Deuteronomy 28:15“But it shall come about, if you do not listen to and obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today, then all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
• Deuteronomy 28:61Also the Lord will bring on you every sickness and every plague which is not written in this book of this law, until you are destroyed.
• Joshua 23:15It shall come about that just as every good word which the Lord your God spoke and promised to you has been fulfilled for you, so the Lord will bring upon you every bad thing [about which He warned you], until He has destroyed and eliminated you from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
• Proverbs 1:24Because I called and you refused [to answer], I stretched out my hand and no one has paid attention [to my offer];
• Isaiah 5:5So now let me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard: I will take away its thorn-hedge, and it will be burned up; I will break down its stone wall and it will be trampled down [by enemies].
• Daniel 9:26Then after the sixty-two weeks [of years] the Anointed One will be cut off [and denied His Messianic kingdom] and have nothing [and no one to defend Him], and the people of the [other] prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.
• Zechariah 13:7“Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, And against the Man, My Associate,” Declares the Lord of hosts. “Strike the Shepherd so that the sheep [of the flock] may be scattered; And I will turn My hand and stretch it out against the little ones [of the flock].
• Matthew 3:9and do not presume to say to yourselves [as a defense], ‘We have Abraham for our father [so our inheritance assures us of salvation]’; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children (descendants) for Abraham.
• Matthew 12:45Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and make their home there. And the last condition of that man becomes worse than the first. So will it also be with this wicked generation.”
• Matthew 22:7The king was enraged [when he heard this], and sent his soldiers and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
• Matthew 23:34“Therefore, take notice, I am sending you prophets and wise men [interpreters, teachers] and scribes [men educated in the Mosaic Law and the writings of the prophets]; some of them you will kill and even crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues, and pursue and persecute from city to city,
• Luke 19:27[The king ended by saying,] ‘But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them, bring them here and kill them in my presence.’ ”
• Luke 20:15So they threw the son out of the vineyard and killed him. What, then, will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

Commentaries on Mark 12:9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9And will give the vineyard unto others - The vineyard must not perish with the husbandmen; it is still capable of producing much fruit, if it be properly cultivated. I will give it into the care of new vine-dressers, the evangelists and apostles. - And under their ministry, multitudes were brought to God before the destruction of Jerusalem.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-12Verses 1-12 See this parable explained in the notes at Matthew 21:33-46. See this parable explained in the notes at Matthew 21:33-46.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9The parable ends with two rhetorical questions (compare 3:23, 33; 4:13; 7:18; 8:12). The first question matches the response of the “LORD of Hosts” in Isaiah’s parable of the vineyard (Isaiah 5:5–7). Some interpreters believe Jesus meant that God would replace the unfaithful Jewish leaders (Mark 11:27; 12:12) with faithful leaders. However, the first people hearing Mark’s Gospel likely understood the others who would receive the vineyard to include the…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Mark 12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings