Mark 12:7 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 12:7

But the tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.

KJV

But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.

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Commentary

4 voices

Theophylact of Ohrid

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (1107)

Or, the hedge is the law, which prohibited their mingling with strangers. There follows, And went into a far country. Or else, By the first servant, understand the prophets who lived about the time of Elias, (2 Chron. 18:23.) for Zedekiah the false prophet beat Micaiah; and by the second servant whom they wounded in the head, that is, evil entreated, we may understand the prophets who lived about the time of Hosea and Isaiah; but by the third servant understand the prophets who flourished about the time of Daniel and Ezekiel.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

Bede

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (735)

(ubi sup.) The Lord proves most clearly that the chiefs of the Jews did not crucify the Son of God through ignorance, but through envy; for they understood that this was He to whom it was said, I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance. (Ps. 2:8) But these evil husbandmen strove to seize upon it by slaying Him, when the Jews crucifying Him tried to extinguish the faith which is by Him, and rather to bring forward their own righteousness which is by the Law, and to thrust it on the nations, and to imbue them with it.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

This is the heir - So they appear to have acknowledged in their consciences that this was the Messiah, the heir of all things. The inheritance shall be ours - By slaying him we shall maintain our authority, and keep possession of our revenues.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

The verses before us contain a historical parable. The history of the Jewish nation, from the day that Israel left Egypt down to the time of the destruction of Jerusalem, is here set before us as in a mirror. Under the figure of the vineyard and the husbandmen, the Lord Jesus tells the story of God's dealings with His people for fifteen hundred years. Let us study it attentively, and apply it to ourselves. Let us observe, in the first place, God's special kindness to the Jewish Church and nation . He gave to them peculiar privileges.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἐκεῖνοι	ekeinoi	Those	G1565 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
οἱ	hoi	<the>	G3588 →
γεωργοὶ	geōrgoi	farmers	G1092 →
πρὸς	pros	to	G4314 →
ἑαυτοὺς	he'autous	themselves	G1438 →
εἶπαν	eipan	they said	G2036 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
οὗτός	houtos	This	G3778 →
ἐστιν	estin	is	G1510 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
κληρονόμος·	klēronomos	heir;	G2818 →
δεῦτε	deute	come	G1205 →
ἀποκτείνωμεν	apokteinōmen	let us kill	G615 →
αὐτόν,	auton	him,	G846 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἡμῶν	hēmōn	ours	G3165 →
ἔσται	estai	will be	G1510 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
κληρονομία.	klēronomia	inheritance.	G2817 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
leads to
- Romans 16:20
  The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
- 1 John 3:8
  The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the…
- Revelation 12:17
  And the dragon was enraged at the woman, and went to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And the…
- Isaiah 7:14
  Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
- Hebrews 2:14–15
  Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,
Through
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—
leads to
- Matthew 5:12
  Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.
- 2 Chronicles 36:16
  But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.
- 1 Kings 19:10
  “I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am…