Mark 12 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Parable of the Vine-growers

(Mat 21:33–46; Luk 20:9–19 )

Mar 12:1And he began to say to them in parables, A man planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.

Mar 12:2

Mar 12:2And he sent a bondman to the husbandmen at the season, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.

Mar 12:3

Mar 12:3But they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.

Mar 12:4

Mar 12:4And again he sent to them another bondman; and at him they threw stones, and struck him on the head, and sent him away with insult.

Mar 12:5

Mar 12:5And again he sent another, and him they killed; and many others, beating some and killing some.

Mar 12:6

Mar 12:6Having yet therefore one beloved son, he sent also him to them the last, saying, They will have respect for my son.

Mar 12:7

Mar 12:7But those husbandmen said to one another, This is the heir: come, let us kill him and the inheritance will be ours.

Mar 12:8

Mar 12:8And they took him and killed him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard.

Mar 12:9

Mar 12:9What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.

Mar 12:10

Mar 12:10Have ye not even read this scripture, The stone which they that builded rejected, this has become the corner-stone:

Mar 12:11

Mar 12:11this is of the Lord, and it is wonderful in our eyes?

Mar 12:12

Mar 12:12And they sought to lay hold of him, and they feared the crowd; for they knew that he had spoken the parable of them. And they left him and went away.

Jesus Answers the Pharisees, Sadducees and Scribes

(Mat 22:15–22; Luk 20:20–26 )

Mar 12:13

Mar 12:13And they send to him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might catch him in speaking.

Mar 12:14

Mar 12:14And they come and say to him, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and carest not for any one; for thou regardest not men's person, but teachest the way of God with truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not?

Mar 12:15

Mar 12:15Should we give, or should we not give? But he knowing their hypocrisy said unto them, Why tempt ye me? Bring me a denarius that I may see it.

Mar 12:16

Mar 12:16And they brought it. And he says to them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said to him, Caesar's.

Mar 12:17

Mar 12:17And Jesus answering said to them, Pay what is Caesar's to Caesar, and what is God's to God. And they wondered at him.

(Mat 22:23–33; Luk 20:27–40 )

Mar 12:18

Mar 12:18And Sadducees come to him, that say there is no resurrection; and they demanded of him saying,

Mar 12:19

Mar 12:19Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if any one's brother die, and leave a wife behind, and leave no children, that his brother shall take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.

Mar 12:20

Mar 12:20There were seven brethren; and the first took a wife, and dying did not leave seed;

Mar 12:21

Mar 12:21and the second took her and died, and neither did he leave seed; and the third likewise.

Mar 12:22

Mar 12:22And the seven took her and did not leave seed. Last of all the woman also died.

Mar 12:23

Mar 12:23In the resurrection, when they shall rise again, of which of them shall she be wife, for the seven had her as wife?

Mar 12:24

Mar 12:24And Jesus answering said to them, Do not ye therefore err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God?

Mar 12:25

Mar 12:25For when they rise from among the dead they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels who are in the heavens.

Mar 12:26

Mar 12:26But concerning the dead that they rise, have ye not read in the book of Moses, in the section of the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, *I* am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

Mar 12:27

Mar 12:27He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. *Ye* therefore greatly err.

(Mat 22:34–40; Luk 10:25–28 )

Mar 12:28

Mar 12:28And one of the scribes who had come up, and had heard them reasoning together, perceiving that he had answered them well, demanded of him, Which is the first commandment of all?

Mar 12:29

Mar 12:29And Jesus answered him, The first commandment of all is, Hear, Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord;

Mar 12:30

Mar 12:30and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment.

Mar 12:31

Mar 12:31And a second like it is this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is not another commandment greater than these.

Mar 12:32

Mar 12:32And the scribe said to him, Right, teacher; thou hast spoken according to the truth. For he is one, and there is none other besides him;

Mar 12:33

Mar 12:33and to love him with all the heart, and with all the intelligence, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is more than all the burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

Mar 12:34

Mar 12:34And Jesus, seeing that he had answered intelligently, said to him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no one dared question him any more.

(Mat 22:41–46; Luk 20:41–44 )

Mar 12:35

Mar 12:35And Jesus answering said as he was teaching in the temple, How do the scribes say that the Christ is son of David?

Mar 12:36

Mar 12:36for David himself said speaking in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand until I put thine enemies as footstool of thy feet.

Mar 12:37

Mar 12:37David himself therefore calls him Lord, and whence is he his son? And the mass of the people heard him gladly.

(Mat 23:1–7; Luk 20:45–47 )

Mar 12:38

Mar 12:38And he said to them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and salutations in the marketplaces,

Mar 12:39

Mar 12:39and first seats in the synagogues, and first places at suppers;

Mar 12:40

Mar 12:40who devour the houses of widows, and as a pretext make long prayers. These shall receive a severer judgment.

The Widow's Mite

(Luk 21:1–4 )

Mar 12:41

Mar 12:41And Jesus, having sat down opposite the treasury, saw how the crowd was casting money into the treasury; and many rich cast in much.

Mar 12:42

Mar 12:42And a poor widow came and cast in two mites, which is a farthing.

Mar 12:43

Mar 12:43And having called his disciples to him he said to them, Verily I say unto you, This poor widow has cast in more than all who have cast into the treasury:

Mar 12:44

Mar 12:44for all have cast in of that which they had in abundance, but she of her destitution has cast in all that she had, the whole of her living.

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