Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Mark 12:1-5
Mark DISHONEST TENANTS Mar_12:1 - Mar_12:12 . The ecclesiastical rulers had just been questioning Jesus as to the authority by which He acted. His answer, a counter-question as to John’s authority, was not an evasion. If they decided whence John came, they would not be at any loss as to whence Jesus came. If they steeled themselves against acknowledging the Forerunner, they would not be receptive of Christ’s message. That keen-edged retort plainly indicates Christ’s conviction of the... read more
Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Mark 12:1-12
2. The Parable concerning the Counsel of the Sanhedrim against the Messiah. Mark 12:1-12.(Parallels: Matthew 21:33-46; Luke 20:9-17.)1 And he began to speak1 unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the wine-fat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. 2And at the season he sent tothe husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of 3 the vineyard. And2 they... read more