Mark 12:1-12

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Mark 12:1-12

Christ had formerly in parables showed how he designed to set up the gospel church; now he begins in parables to show how he would lay aside the Jewish church, which it might have been grafted into the stock of, but was built upon the ruins of. This parable we had just as we have it here, Matt. 21:33. We may observe here, I. They that enjoy the privileges of the visible church, have a vineyard let out to them, which is capable of great improvement, and from the occupiers of which rent is... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Mark 12:1-12

12:1-12 Jesus began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard. He put a hedge round about it, and dug a wine vat, and built a tower. He let it out to cultivators and went abroad. At the right time he sent a servant to the cultivators that he might receive from the cultivators his share of the fruits of the vineyard. They took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. Again he sent another servant to them. They wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully. He sent... 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 12:8

And they took him, and killed him, and cast him, out of the vineyard. They sent their officers and servants, and apprehended him in the garden; they delivered him to the Gentiles, who were without the vineyard, and by whom, at their instigation, he was put to death, even to the death of the cross. The Ethiopic version reads it in the same order as in Matthew; "they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed hin"; See Gill on Matthew 21:39 . read more

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