Mark 12:6-10

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 12:1-44

Jesus Begins His Final Journey to Jerusalem On The Road To The Cross and Spends Much Time in Teaching His Disciples And Disputing With His Enemies In Readiness For That Event, For He Is Giving His Life As A Ransom For Many (9:33-12:44). Having returned to Capernaum Jesus now has His face set towards Jerusalem, and in Mark 9:33-50 He will lay the foundation by pointing out the fact that all must look to and respond to His Name, and the dangers inherent in not doing so. Then He will advance into... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 12:6-7

“And he had yet one, a beloved son. He sent him last to them saying, ‘They will treat my son with due honour’. But those tenant farmers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ ” Here Jesus made His most clear public statement yet that He was the Messiah, and more than the Messiah, and yet He did it in a way that could not be used against Him. He was confirming that He was ‘God’s beloved Son’ (compare Mark 1:11; Mark 9:7). For the owner... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 12:8

“And they took him and killed him and threw his body out of the vineyard.” Ominously Jesus now declared the certainty of His forthcoming death and the ignominious treatment they would plan for Him. He would be killed and His body tossed out of the vineyard. He would be treated like those criminals whose bodies were tossed out of Jerusalem onto the fires of the Valley of Hinnom. This was the bitter fruit that the owner received from his vineyard. It is a sign of the authenticity of the parable... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 12:9

“What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenant farmers and will give the vineyard to others.” ‘The lord of the vineyard’ here is the owner and the outcome is exactly what anyone would expect. He would come and destroy them. What else could the owner do? (The tenants had clearly hoped he would not think it worth the trouble). Strictly the meaning here is simply that those responsible for God’s people will be judged and replaced. It is not the vineyard that... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 12:10-11

“Have you not read even this Scripture, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord and it is marvellous in our eyes.’ ” This method of finishing off a parable with a Scripture quotation is regularly found among the Rabbis. The quotation is taken from Psalms 118:22-23 LXX, which was the same Psalm shouted out by the crowds when Jesus entered Jerusalem. Even at that time these words must have come into His mind as He contemplated what... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 12:1-12

Mark 12:1-2 Kings : . The Parable of the Vineyard.— The genuineness of this parable is disputed— (1) because it is allegorical in character; (2) because it reflects a later situation and assumes Christ’ s death; (3) because it embodies an open claim to Messiahship which is in consistent with the prudent and guarded answers of Jesus to questions about authority. That this parable, unlike most others, is an allegory, does not render it suspect as an utterance of Jesus ( Mark 4:1-Nahum : *).... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Mark 12:1-12

This parable is related by Matthew, and by Luke also: See Poole on "Matthew 21:33", and following verses to Matthew 21:46. Matthew 21:12 tells us, that the rulers of the Jewish church knew that he had spoken this parable against them, and they needs must know it, considering what Matthew adds to this parable, (which Mark and Luke have not), that he also told them, Matthew 21:43, Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Mark 12:1-12

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESMark 12:1. A place for the winefat.—Simply a winepress; or (more exactly) winevat, i.e. the receptacle under the winepress proper. Probably ὑπολήνιον is here used to denote the whole apparatus, which was often hollowed out of a sloping rock. A tower.—A stone building some twenty feet high, with a flat roof, where a sentinel was posted to protect the vineyard from depredators. It would also serve as a residence during the vintage season. Into a far country.—Too... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Mark 12:6

DISCOURSE: 1446THE REGARD DUE TO CHRISTMark 12:6. They will reverence my son.THERE are many passages of Scripture, wherein God speaks of himself as frustrated and disappointed by the conduct of his creatures. We are not however to suppose that events happened really contrary to the purposes he had fixed or the expectations he had formed: for it is certain that “he doeth according to his will in the armies of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth;” and that “known unto him are all his... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Mark 12:6

son Jesus Himself. Cf. Hebrews 1:1-3 read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 12:1-44

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 12:6-7

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 12:8

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 12:9

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 12:10-11

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 12:1-12

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Mark 12:1-12

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Mark 12:1-12

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Mark 12:6

Scofield's Reference Notes - Mark 12:6

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