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He will come and will destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Have you not even read this Scripture:</p><p class="indent1stlinered">‘<i>The</i> stone which those building rejected,</p><p class="indentred2"> this has become the chief corner; </p><p class="indentred1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>this was from <i>the</i> Lord,</p><p class="indentred2"> and it is marvelous in our eyes’<span class="fn"><a href="#fna" title="Psalm 118:22,23">a</a></span>?” </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And they were seeking to lay hold of Him, and yet they feared the crowd; for they knew that He had spoken the parable against them. And having left Him, they went away. </p><p class="hdg">Paying Taxes to Caesar<br /><span class="cross">(Matthew 22:15-22; Luke 20:19-26)</span></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And they send some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Him, that they might catch Him in discourse. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And having come, they say to Him, “Teacher, we know that You are true, and to You there is no care about <i>any</i> one; for You do not look on <i>the</i> appearance of men, but teach the way of God on the basis of <i>the</i> truth. Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not? Should we pay or not pay?” </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And knowing their hypocrisy, He said to them, <span class="red">“Why do you test Me? Bring Me a denarius,<span class="fn"><a href="#fnb" title="A denarius was customarily a day's wage for a laborer (see Matthew 20:2)">b</a></span> that I might see <i>it</i>.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And they brought <i>it</i>, and He says to them, <span class="red">“Whose likeness and inscription <i>is</i> this?”</span></p><p class="reg"> And they said to Him, “Caesar’s.” </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Jesus said to them, <span class="red">“Give back to Caesar the things of Caesar, and to God the things of God.”</span></p><p class="reg"> And they were amazed at Him. </p><p class="hdg">The Sadducees and the Resurrection<br /><span class="cross">(Matthew 22:23-33; Luke 20:27-40)</span></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Sadducees, who say there is not a resurrection, come to Him. And they began questioning Him, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Teacher, Moses wrote for us, that if anyone’s brother should die and leave behind a wife and not leave children, that his brother should take the wife and raise up seed for his brother. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>There were seven brothers; and the first took a wife, and dying, left no seed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And the second took her, and died, not having left seed. And the third likewise. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And the seven left no seed. Last of all, the woman also died. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>In the resurrection, when they rise,<span class="fn"><a href="#fnc" title="WH does not include ‘when they rise’">c</a></span> of which of them will she be wife? For the seven had her as wife.” </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Jesus was saying to them, <span class="red">“Do you not err because of this, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God? <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For when they rise out from <i>the</i> dead, neither do they marry, nor are given in marriage; but they are like angels in the heavens.</span> </p><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses on the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I <i>am</i> the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’<span class="fn"><a href="#fnd" title="Exodus 3:6">d</a></span>? <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>He is not God of <i>the</i> dead, but of <i>the</i> living. You err greatly.” </p><p class="hdg">The Greatest Commandment<br /><span class="cross">(Deuteronomy 6:1-19; Matthew 22:34-40)</span></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And one of the scribes having come up, having heard them reasoning together, having seen that He answered them well, questioned Him, “Which commandment is <i>the</i> first of all?” </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Jesus answered, <span class="red">“The foremost is, ‘Hear this O Israel: <i>The</i> Lord our God is One Lord, <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>and you shall love <i>the</i> Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’<span class="fn"><a href="#fne" title="Deuteronomy 6:4,5">e</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><i>The</i> second <i>is</i> this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’<span class="fn"><a href="#fnf" title="Leviticus 19:18">f</a></span> There is not another commandment greater than these.”</span> </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And the scribe said to Him, “Right, Teacher. You have spoken according to truth that He is One, and there is not another besides Him, <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>and to love Him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love the neighbor as oneself is more important than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.” </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And Jesus, having seen him that he answered wisely, said to him, <span class="red">“You are not far from the kingdom of God.”</span> And no one dared to question Him <i>any</i> longer. </p><p class="hdg">Whose Son is the Christ?<br /><span class="cross">(Matthew 22:41-46; Luke 20:41-44)</span></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And answering, Jesus was saying, teaching in the temple, <span class="red">“How do the scribes say that the Christ is <i>the</i> son of David? <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>David himself said by the Holy Spirit:</span></p><p class="indent1stlinered">‘<i>The</i> Lord said to my Lord,</p><p class="indentred2">“Sit at My right hand,</p><p class="indentred1"> until I place Your enemies</p><p class="indentred2"> <i>as</i> a footstool of Your feet.”’<span class="fn"><a href="#fng" title="Psalm 110:1">g</a></span> </p><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>David himself calls Him Lord. And from where is He his son?”</p><p class="reg"> And the great crowd was listening to Him gladly. </p><p class="hdg">Warning against the Scribes<br /><span class="cross">(Luke 20:45-47)</span></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And in His teaching He was saying, <span class="red">“Beware of the scribes, desiring to walk about in robes, and greetings in the marketplaces, <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>and first seats in the synagogues, and first places at the feasts; <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>those devouring the houses of widows, and praying at great length as a pretext. These will receive greater judgment.”</span> </p><p class="hdg">The Widow's Offering<br /><span class="cross">(Luke 21:1-4)</span></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>And having sat down opposite the treasury, He was watching how the crowd cast money into the treasury; and many rich were casting <i>in</i> much. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>And one poor widow having come, cast <i>in</i> two lepta,<span class="fn"><a href="#fnh" title="A lepton was a Jewish copper coin worth about 1/128 of a denarius">h</a></span> which is a kodrantes. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>And having summoned His disciples, He says to them, <span class="red">“Truly I say to you that this poor widow has cast <i>in</i> more than all of those casting into the treasury. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>For all cast <i>in</i> out of that which was abounding to them, but she out of her poverty cast <i>in</i> all, as much as she had of her whole livelihood.”</span><A name="fn"><br /><br /></p><A name="fna"></a><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">10-11</span> <span class="footnote">Psalm 118:22,23</span><br /><A name="fnb"></a><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnote">A denarius was customarily a day's wage for a laborer (see Matthew 20:2)</span><br /><A name="fnc"></a><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">23</span> <span class="footnote">WH does not include <i>when they rise</i></span><br /><A name="fnd"></a><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> <span class="footnote">Exodus 3:6</span><br /><A name="fne"></a><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">29-30</span> <span class="footnote">Deuteronomy 6:4,5</span><br /><A name="fnf"></a><span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">31</span> <span class="footnote">Leviticus 19:18</span><br /><A name="fng"></a><span class="footnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">36</span> <span class="footnote">Psalm 110:1</span><br /><A name="fnh"></a><span class="footnotesbot">h</span> <span class="fnverse">42</span> <span class="footnote">A lepton was a Jewish copper coin worth about 1/128 of a denarius</span><br /><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible<br /><a href="//berean.bible">www.Berean.Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="//literalbible.com">Berean Literal Bible (BLB)</a><br />© 2016 by <a href="//biblehub.com">Bible Hub</a> and <a href="//berean.bible">Berean.Bible</a><br />Used by Permission. 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