Mark 12
1 And he began to speak unto them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set
a hedge about it, and digged a pit for the winepress, and built a tower, and let
it out to husbandmen, and went into another country.
2 And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive
from the husbandmen of the fruits of the vineyard.
3 And they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
4 And again he sent unto them another servant; and him they wounded in the head,
and handled shamefully.
5 And he sent another; and him they killed: and many others; beating some, and
killing some.
6 He had yet one, a beloved son: he sent him last unto them, saying, They will
reverence my son.
7 But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us
kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.
8 And they took him, and killed him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard.
9 What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the
husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
10 Have ye not read even this scripture: The stone which the builders rejected,
The same was made the head of the corner;
11 This was from the Lord, And it is marvellous in our eyes?
12 And they sought to lay hold on him; and they feared the multitude; for they
perceived that he spake the parable against them: and they left him, and went
away.
13 And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that
they might catch him in talk.
14 And when they were come, they say unto him, Teacher, we know that thou art
true, and carest not for any one; for thou regardest not the person of men, but
of a truth teachest the way of God: Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or
not?
15 Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said
unto them, Why make ye trial of me? bring me a denarius, that I may see it.
16 And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and
superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's.
17 And Jesus said unto them, Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's,
and unto God the things that are God's. And they marvelled greatly at him.
18 And there come unto him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection; and
they asked him, saying,
19 Teacher, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave a wife behind
him, and leave no child, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up
seed unto his brother.
20 There were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed;
21 and the second took her, and died, leaving no seed behind him; and the third
likewise:
22 and the seven left no seed. Last of all the woman also died.
23 In the resurrection whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to
wife.
24 Jesus said unto them, Is it not for this cause that ye err, that ye know not
the scriptures, nor the power of God?
25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in
marriage; but are as angels in heaven.
26 But as touching the dead, that they are raised; have ye not read in the book
of Moses, in [the place concerning] the Bush, how God spake unto him, saying, I
[am] the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
27 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: ye do greatly err.
28 And one of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together, and knowing
that he had answered them well, asked him, What commandment is the first of all?
29 Jesus answered, The first is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God, the Lord is
one:
30 and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.
31 The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none
other commandment greater than these.
32 And the scribe said unto him, Of a truth, Teacher, thou hast well said that
he is one; and there is none other but he:
33 and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with
all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is much more than all
whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.
34 And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art
not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any
question.
35 And Jesus answered and said, as he taught in the temple, How say the scribes
that the Christ is the son of David?
36 David himself said in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou
on my right hand, Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet.
37 David himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he his son? And the common
people heard him gladly.
38 And in his teaching he said, Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in
long robes, and [to have] salutations in the marketplaces,
39 and chief seats in the synagogues, and chief places at feasts:
40 they that devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers; these
shall receive greater condemnation.
41 And he sat down over against the treasury, and beheld how the multitude cast
money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.
42 And there came a poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which make a
farthing.
43 And he called unto him his disciples, and said unto them, Verily I say unto
you, This poor widow cast in more than all they that are casting into the
treasury:
44 for they all did cast in of their superfluity; but she of her want did cast
in all that she had, [even] all her living.