Mark 12:9
What does Mark 12:9 mean?
A plain-English look at Mark 12:9 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
What Mark 12:9 means
Jesus then poses a rhetorical question to His listeners, asking what the lord of the vineyard will do in response to such extreme wickedness. He immediately answers that the lord will come and utterly destroy the rebellious husbandmen, subsequently giving the vineyard to others. This signifies God’s righteous judgment upon those who reject His Son, Jesus Christ. It also foretells the coming destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, and the transfer of spiritual stewardship from the unfaithful Jewish religious leaders to new \"husbandmen\"—the early church, composed of both Jews and Gentiles.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
KJV
King James Version · 1611What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949What then will the master of the garden do? He will come and put the workmen to death, and will give the garden into the hands of others.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those husbandmen and will give the vineyard to others.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.
Context
Following the recounting of the son’s murder, this verse is Jesus’s direct application of the parable, calling for a verdict from His audience. It immediately leads into the citation of a crucial Old Testament scripture that buttresses His conclusion. This question and answer provide the theological explanation for the parable and set the stage for the dramatic revelation of Jesus’s identity and the consequences for His rejecters.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 29:17
Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
- Joshua 23:15
And it shall come to pass, that as all the good things are come upon you of which Jehovah your God spake unto you, so will Jehovah bring upon you all the evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which Jehovah your God hath given you.
- Matthew 12:45
Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this evil generation.
- Isaiah 5:5
And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
- Deuteronomy 28:15
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.
- Proverbs 1:24
Because I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded;
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