Mark 12:1-44

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Mark 12:35-37

12:35-37a While Jesus was teaching in the sacred precincts, he said, "How can the experts in the law say that God's Anointed One is the Son of David? David himself, moved by the Holy Spirit, said, 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.' David himself calls him Lord. And how then can he be his son?" For us this is a difficult passage to understand, because it uses thoughts and methods of argument which are strange to us. But it... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Mark 12:37

12:37b-40 The mass of the people listened to him with pleasure. And in his teaching he said, "Beware of the experts in the law, who like to walk about in flowing robes, and who like greetings in the market-places, and the front seats in the synagogue, and the places of highest honour at meals, men who devour widows' houses, and who, in pretence, pray at great length. These will receive a more abundant condemnation." The first sentence of this passage most probably goes with this section... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Mark 12:41-44

12:41-44 When Jesus had sat down opposite the treasury, he was watching how the crowd threw their money into the treasury, and many rich people threw in large sums. A poor widow woman came and threw in two mites which make up half a farthing. He called his disciples and said to them, "This is the truth I tell you--this poor widow woman has thrown in more than an the people who threw money into the treasury, for all of them threw their contributions in out of their abundance, but she out of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 12:1

And he began to speak unto them by parables ,.... As of the two sons the father bid go to work in the vineyard; and of the planting of a vineyard, and letting it out to husbandmen, as here; though the latter is only related by this evangelist, yet both are by Matthew. This was not the first time of his speaking by parables to the people, though it might be the first time he spake in this way to the chief priests and elders, and who are particularly designed in them. A certain man planted... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 12:2

And at the season he sent unto the husbandman a servant ,.... The Evangelist Matthew says, "when the time of the fruit drew near", Matthew 21:34 ; and so the Persic version here reads. The Syriac and Ethiopic versions read, "in its own time", or "season", which was the fourth year from the planting of it; and then it was holy to the Lord; and might not be eaten until the fifth year, Leviticus 19:23 . According to the Jewish canons F12 Misn. Maaser Sheni, c. 5. sect. 1, 2. , a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 12:3

And they caught him ,.... This clause is left out in the Syriac and Persic versions, though it seems proper to be retained; and denotes the rudeness and violence with which the prophets of the Lord were used by the Jewish nation: and beat him : either with their fists, or with rods, and scourges, till the skin was flayed off: and sent him away empty ; without any fruit to carry with him, or give an account of, to the owner of the vineyard. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 12:4

And again he sent unto them another servant ,.... Another set of good men, to instruct, advise, and counsel them, and exhort them to their duty; such as were Isaiah, Zechariah, and others: and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head ; for of these were stoned, as well as sawn asunder, and slain with the sword; though it seems, that this servant, or this set of men, were not stoned to death, because he was afterwards said to be sent away: nor could the stoning be what was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 12:5

And again he sent another ,.... That is, another servant, or set of men, it may be in the times of the Maccabees, who were used in a very inhuman manner; see Hebrews 11:37 ; and him they killed ; either with the sword, or by inflicting some capital punishment, as stoning, strangling, &c.; and many others ; that is, either the owner of the vineyard sent many other servants, or the husbandmen ill used many others that were sent to them: beating some ; with their hands, or... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 12:6

Having yet therefore one son, his well beloved ,.... The Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the one, and only Son of God his Father, his only begotten Son, for he has no other Son in the same way of filiation; and who is his dear Son, the Son of his love, who was loved by him before the foundation of the world; and whom he declared to be his beloved Son, both at his baptism, and at his transfiguration upon the mount, by a voice from heaven: this Son he having with him, in his bosom, as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 12:7

But those husbandmen said among themselves ,.... This, in the Persic version, is introduced thus, "when the vine dressers saw the son of the lord of the vineyard": agreeably to Matthew 21:38 . The Ethiopic version renders it, "and the servants said"; not the servants that had been sent, but the workmen in the vineyard: this is the heir ; that is, "of the vineyard", as the Persic version expresses it they knew him by the prophecies of the Old Testament which had described him, and by... read more

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Mark 12:35-37

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Mark 12:37

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Mark 12:41-44

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 12:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 12:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 12:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 12:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 12:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 12:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 12:7

Verse of the Day

Daily Devotional

Group of Brands