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 vine-growers said to one another, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’ 8They took him, and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard. What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vine-growers, and will give the vineyard to others. 10Have you not even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected, This became the chief corner stone; 11This came about from the Lord, And it is marvelous 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

• Whatτίςtis · which?G5101
• ownerκύριοςkurios · lord: masterG2962
• of the vineyardἀμπελώνampelōn · vineyardG290
• doποιέωpoieō · to do/make: doG4160
• He will comeἔρχομαιerchomai · to come/goG2064
• and destroyἀπολλύωapollumi · to destroyG622
• the vine-growersγεωργόςgeōrgos · farmerG1092
• and will giveδίδωμιdidōmi · to giveG1325
• to othersἄλλοςallos · anotherG243

Cross-references for Mark 12:9

• Matthew 21:40Therefore when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine-growers?”
• Leviticus 26:15if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
• Deuteronomy 4:26I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will surely perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to possess it. You shall not live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed.
• Deuteronomy 28:15“But it shall come about, if you do not obey the Lord your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
• Deuteronomy 28:61Also every sickness and every plague which, not written in the book of this law, the Lord will bring on you until you are destroyed.
• Joshua 23:15It shall come about that just as all the good words which the Lord your God spoke to you have come upon you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the threats, until He has destroyed you from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
• Proverbs 1:24Because I called and you refused, I stretched out my hand and no one paid attention;
• Isaiah 5:5So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard: I will remove its hedge and it will be consumed; I will break down its wall and it will become trampled ground.
• Daniel 9:26Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And 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 that the sheep may be scattered; And I will turn My hand against the little ones.
• Matthew 3:9and do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father’; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham.
• Matthew 12:45Then it goes and takes along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. That is the way it will also be with this evil generation.”
• Matthew 22:7But the king was enraged, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire.
• Matthew 23:34“Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city,
• Luke 19:27But these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them in my presence.’”
• Luke 20:15So they threw him 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