Mark 12 (NET)

Mark 12:1¹Then he began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 5:1-4Mark 13:34Song 8:11-12Mark 4:2Matt 25:14Rom 11:17-24Mark 4:33-34Ps 80:8-16Acts 7:38Acts 7:46-47

Mark 12:2²At harvest time he sent a slave to the tenants to collect from them his portion of the crop.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 15:1-82 Chr 36:152 Kgs 17:13Ezra 9:11Heb 1:1Jer 25:4-5Jer 35:15Jer 44:4Judg 6:8-10Luke 12:48

Mark 12:3³But those tenants seized his slave, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 2:152 Chr 36:16Acts 7:52Heb 11:36-37Jer 26:20-24Jer 29:26Neh 9:261 Kgs 18:131 Kgs 18:41 Kgs 19:10

Mark 12:4⁴So he sent another slave to them again. This one they struck on the head and treated outrageously.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Mark 12:5⁵He sent another, and that one they killed. This happened to many others, some of whom were beaten, others killed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 7:25-28Luke 6:22-23Luke 6:36Mark 9:13Matt 21:35-36Matt 22:6Matt 23:37Matt 5:12Neh 9:30

Mark 12:6⁶He had one left, his one dear son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 1:1-2Matt 3:17John 1:341 John 4:91 John 5:11-12Gen 22:12Gen 22:2Gen 37:3Heb 1:6Isa 42:1

Mark 12:7⁷But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and the inheritance will be ours!’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 13:27-28Acts 2:23Acts 5:28Acts 7:52Gen 3:15Gen 37:20Isa 49:7Isa 53:7-8John 11:47-50Mark 12:12

Mark 12:8⁸So they seized him, killed him, and threw his body out of the vineyard.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 20:15Matt 21:33Matt 21:39Heb 13:11-13

Mark 12:9⁹What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 10:20-11:12Luke 19:27Matt 21:43Rom 9:30-33Acts 13:46-48Acts 28:23-28Dan 9:26-27Deut 28:15-68Deut 4:26-27Isa 29:17

Mark 12:10¹⁰Have you not read this scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 118:22-231 Pet 2:7-8Isa 28:16Luke 20:17-18Acts 4:11-12Matt 21:42Eph 2:20-22Rom 9:33Mark 2:25Matt 21:16

Mark 12:11¹¹This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes ’?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 118:23Acts 2:32-36Acts 3:12-16Hab 1:51 Tim 3:16Acts 13:40-41Acts 2:12Col 1:27Eph 3:8-11Num 23:23

Mark 12:12¹²Now they wanted to arrest him (but they feared the crowd), because they realized that he told this parable against them. So they left him and went away.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 11:18John 7:25John 7:30John 7:44Mark 11:32Matt 22:221 Kgs 20:38-411 Kgs 21:17-272 Sam 12:7-15Luke 20:19

Mark 12:13¹³Then they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to trap him with his own words.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 11:54Luke 20:20-26Mark 3:6Mark 8:15Isa 29:21Jer 18:18Matt 16:6Matt 22:15-22Ps 140:5Ps 38:12

Mark 12:14¹⁴When they came they said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are truthful and do not court anyone’s favor, because you show no partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or shouldn’t we?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 2:42 Cor 2:172 Cor 2:22 Cor 5:112 Cor 5:16Gal 1:10Gal 2:11-14Gal 2:6John 7:18Luke 20:22

Mark 12:15¹⁵But he saw through their hypocrisy and said to them, “Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 2:231 Cor 10:9Acts 5:9Ezek 17:2Heb 4:13John 2:24-25John 21:17Luke 20:23Mark 10:2Matt 22:18

Mark 12:16¹⁶So they brought one, and he said to them, “Whose image is this, and whose inscription?” They replied, “Caesar’s.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 2:19Luke 20:24-26Matt 22:19-22Rev 3:12

Mark 12:17¹⁷Then Jesus said to them, “Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they were utterly amazed at him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 13:71 Cor 14:24-251 Pet 2:172 Cor 5:14-15Acts 4:19-20Job 5:12-13Matt 22:22Matt 22:46Prov 24:21Eccl 5:4-5

Mark 12:18¹⁸Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) also came to him and asked him,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 4:1-2Matt 22:23-331 Cor 15:13-182 Tim 2:18Acts 23:6-9Luke 20:27-40

Mark 12:19¹⁹“Teacher, Moses wrote for us: ‘If a man ’ s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 25:5-10Gen 38:8Ruth 1:11-13Ruth 4:5

Mark 12:20²⁰There were seven brothers. The first one married, and when he died he had no children.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 20:29-33Matt 22:25-28

Mark 12:21²¹The second married her and died without any children, and likewise the third.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Mark 12:22²²None of the seven had children. Finally, the woman died too.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Mark 12:23²³In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For all seven had married her.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Mark 12:24²⁴Jesus said to them, “Aren’t you deceived for this reason, because you don’t know the scriptures or the power of God?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 3:15-17John 20:9Matt 22:29Eph 1:19Isa 25:8Acts 17:11Hos 6:2Jer 32:17Mark 10:27Phil 3:21

Mark 12:25²⁵For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 20:35-36Matt 22:301 John 3:2Heb 12:22-231 Cor 15:42-54

Mark 12:26²⁶Now as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ’?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 3:2-6Gen 17:7-8Luke 20:37Gen 33:20Acts 7:30-32Exod 3:16Gen 26:24Gen 31:42Gen 32:9Isa 41:8-10

Mark 12:27²⁷He is not the God of the dead but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 14:9Mark 12:24Rom 4:17Heb 11:13-16Heb 3:10

Mark 12:28²⁸Now one of the experts in the law came and heard them debating. When he saw that Jesus answered them well, he asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 22:34-40Luke 10:25-28Luke 20:39Matt 19:18Matt 5:19

Mark 12:29²⁹Jesus answered, “The most important is: ‘Listen, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 6:4Luke 10:27Gal 3:20Rom 3:301 Cor 8:4Jas 2:19Jude 1:25Mark 12:32-33Deut 30:61 Tim 2:5

Mark 12:30³⁰Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 6:5

Mark 12:31³¹The second is: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 13:8-9Matt 22:39Lev 19:18Luke 10:271 Cor 13:4-8Matt 7:12Gal 5:141 John 4:211 John 4:7-8Jas 2:8-13

Mark 12:32³²The expert in the law said to him, “That is true, Teacher; you are right to say that he is one, and there is no one else besides him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 4:39Deut 4:35Isa 46:9Deut 6:4Isa 45:14Isa 45:18Isa 45:5-6Deut 5:7Isa 44:8Jer 10:10-12

Mark 12:33³³And to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 6:6Mic 6:6-81 Sam 15:22Matt 12:7Matt 9:131 Cor 13:1-3Amos 5:21-24Isa 1:11-17Jer 7:21-23Ps 50:8-15

Mark 12:34³⁴When Jesus saw that he had answered thoughtfully, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” Then no one dared any longer to question him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 4:6Luke 20:40Matt 22:46Gal 2:19Job 32:15-16Matt 12:20Rom 3:19-20Rom 7:9Titus 1:9-11

Mark 12:35³⁵While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he said, “How is it that the experts in the law say that the Christ is David’s son?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 20:41-44Matt 22:41-45Matt 26:55John 18:20John 7:42Luke 19:47Luke 20:1Luke 21:37Mark 11:27Matt 9:27

Mark 12:36³⁶David himself, by the Holy Spirit, said, ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.”’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 110:1Heb 1:13Matt 22:43-451 Cor 15:25Heb 10:12-13Acts 2:34-36Acts 1:162 Sam 23:2Neh 9:301 Pet 1:11

Mark 12:37³⁷If David himself calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” And the large crowd was listening to him with delight.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 1:3-41 Tim 3:16Jas 2:5John 12:9John 7:46-49Luke 19:48Luke 21:38Matt 1:23Matt 11:25Matt 11:5

Mark 12:38³⁸In his teaching Jesus also said, “Watch out for the experts in the law. They like walking around in long robes and elaborate greetings in the marketplaces,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 20:45-47Matt 23:1-7Luke 11:43Matt 6:5Luke 14:7-11Mark 4:2Matt 10:17

Mark 12:39³⁹and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 2:2-3

Mark 12:40⁴⁰They devour widows’ property, and as a show make long prayers. These men will receive a more severe punishment.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 20:47Matt 23:13Matt 23:33Ezek 22:25Matt 6:72 Tim 3:6Luke 12:47-48Mic 3:1-4

Mark 12:41⁴¹Then he sat down opposite the offering box, and watched the crowd putting coins into it. Many rich people were throwing in large amounts.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 21:1-42 Kgs 12:9John 8:20Matt 27:6

Mark 12:42⁴²And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, worth less than a penny.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Mark 12:43⁴³He called his disciples and said to them, “I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the offering box than all the others.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 8:22 Cor 9:6-8Acts 11:292 Cor 8:12Exod 35:21-29Matt 10:42

Mark 12:44⁴⁴For they all gave out of their wealth. But she, out of her poverty, put in what she had to live on, everything she had.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 8:2-31 John 3:17Ezra 2:68-69Luke 21:2-4Mark 14:8Luke 15:30Luke 8:432 Chr 24:10-14Deut 24:61 Chr 29:2-17