Mark 12:4

And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. For the exposition, see the notes at Matthew 21:33. The time of this section appears to be still the third day of Christ's last week-Tuesday. Matthew introduces the subject by saying (), "Then went the Pharisees and took counsel how they might entangle Him in His talk....

1-12 Christ showed in parables, that he would lay aside the Jewish church. It is sad to think what base usage God's faithful ministers have met with in all ages, from those who have enjoyed the privileges of the church, but have not brought forth fruit answerable. God at length sent his Son, his Well-beloved; and it might be expected that he whom their Master loved, they also should respect and love; but instead of honouring him because he was the Son and Heir, they therefore hated him. But the exaltation of Christ was the Lord's doing; and it is his doing to exalt him in our hearts, and to set up his throne there; and if this be done, it cannot but be marvellous in our eyes. The Scriptures, and faithful preachers, and the coming of Christ in the flesh, call on us to render due praise to God in our lives. Let sinners beware of a proud, carnal spirit; if they revile or despise the preache...

Verse Mark 12:4. _AT HIM THEY CAST STONES AND WOUNDED_ HIM _IN THE HEAD_] Or rather, as most learned men agree, _they made short work of it_, εκεφαλαιωσαν. We have followed the Vulgate, _illum in capite_ _vulneraverunt_, in translating the original, _wounded_ him _in the_ _head_, in which signification, I believe, the word is found in no Greek writer. ανακεφαλαιοομαι signifies to _sum up, to comprise_, and is used in this sense by St. Paul, Romans 13:9. From the parable we learn that these people were determined to hear _no_ reason, to do _no_ justice, and to keep the _possession_ and the _produce_ by violence; therefore they fulfilled their purpose in the _fullest_ and _speediest_ manner, which seems to be what the evangelis...

See this parable explained in the notes at Matthew 21:33. See this parable explained in the notes at Matthew 21:33....

EXPOSITION MARK 12:1 AND HE BEGAN TO SPEAK UNTO THEM IN PARABLES. This particular parable which follows was specially directed against the scribes and Pharisees; but it was uttered in the presence of a multitude of the people. "He _began _to speak … in parables." He had not used this form of instruction till now in Jerusalem. A MAN PLANTED A VINEYARD. The imagery of the parable would be familiar to them from Isaiah (Isaiah 5:1). But Palestine was eminently a land of "vineyards," as well as of "oil olives." The man who planted the vineyard is no other than God himself. "Thou hast brought a vine" out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it." The imagery is specially appropriate. No property was considered to yield so rich a r

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 done by the order of the sanhedrim, which was done by letting an heavy stone fail upon the heart k; but this was done by all the people, by the outrageous zealots, in the manner Stephen was stoned. Dr. Lightfoot thinks, the usual sense of the Greek word may be retained; which signifies "to reduce", or "gather into a certain sum": and so as this servant was sent to reckon with these husbandmen, and take an a...

CHAPTER 12 _ 1. The Parable of the Vineyard. (Mark 12:1 .Matthew 21:33; Luke 20:9)_ 2. The Question concerning the Tribute Money. (Mark 12:13. Matthew 22:15; Luke 20:20) 3. The Sadducees Questioning concerning Resurrection. (Mark 12:18. Matthew 22:23;...

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 *). That such a parable is out of place before the death of Christ involves the dubious assumption that Jesus could not have viewed His death as marking the end of God's mercy to Israel. While the Messianic claim is more boldly asserted here than elsewhere, yet throughout this section of the gospel, there is less reticence about the Messiahship, and the moral of the parable is not explicitly drawn which does harmonise with the prudence of t...

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 yet another. They killed him. So they treated many others, beating some and killing others. He had still one person left to send, his beloved son. Last of all he sent him to them. "They will respect my son," he said. But these cultivators said to each other, "This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours." So they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard. What, then...

UNTO. Greek. _pros._ App-104. As in verses: Mark 12:6; Mark 12:13; Mark 12:18. ANOTHER. Greek. _allos_ App-124. AT HIM, &c.. him they stoned. This word "stoned" is omitted by all the texts. SENT HIM AWAY SHAMEFULLY HANDLED.. T Tr. WH. with Syriac read "insulted him"....