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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)“What do you suppose the owner of the vineyard will do?” Jesus asked. “I’ll tell you—he will come and kill those farmers and lease the vineyard to others.

Context of Mark 12:9

7“But the tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ 8So they took him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard. “What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others. 10Haven’t you read this passage of Scripture: “ ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; 11the Lord has done this, 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

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 21:40“Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”
• Leviticus 26:15and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,
• Deuteronomy 4:26I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live there long but will certainly be destroyed.
• Deuteronomy 28:15However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you:
• Deuteronomy 28:61The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.
• Joshua 23:15But just as all the good things the Lord your God has promised you have come to you, so he will bring on you all the evil things he has threatened, until the Lord your God has destroyed you from this good land he has given you.
• Proverbs 1:24But since you refuse to listen when I call and no one pays attention when I stretch out my hand,
• Isaiah 5:5Now I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.
• Daniel 9:26After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.
• Zechariah 13:7“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is close to me!” declares the Lord Almighty. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
• Matthew 3:9And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
• Matthew 12:45Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation.”
• Matthew 22:7The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
• Matthew 23:34Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.
• Luke 19:27But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me.’ ”
• 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