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And he sent many others, some of whom they scourged, and some they killed. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Therefore, having yet one son, his beloved, he sent him also to them last, saying, They will reverence my son. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But those vine-dressers said one to another, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And they took him, and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>What, then, will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those vine-dressers, and give his vineyard to others.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Have you not read this scripture: The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner;<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>this was from the Lord, and it is wondrous in our eyes?<CM><p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And they sought to take him, but feared the multitude; for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them; and they left him, and went away.<CM><p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">Paying Taxes to Caesar<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/22.htm#15">Matthew 22:15–22</a>; <a href ="../luke/20.htm#19">Luke 20:19–26</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might entrap him in his words. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And they came and said to him: Teacher, we know that you are true, and that you care for no one; for you do not regard the person of men, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Must we give, or must we not give? But, knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them: Why do you tempt me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>They brought it; and he said to them: Whose image and superscription is this? They said to him: Caesar's. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Jesus answered and said to them: Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they were astonished at him.<CM><p> <A name="19"></a><p class="hdg">The Sadducees and the Resurrection<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/22.htm#23">Matthew 22:23–33</a>; <a href ="../luke/20.htm#27">Luke 20:27–40</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And the Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came to him, and put a question to him, saying: <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Teacher, Moses wrote for us, If any man's brother die, and leave a wife, and leave no children, his brother shall take his wife, and raise up children for his brother. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Now there were seven brothers; and the first took a wife, and dying, left no child; <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and the second took her, and he died, and left no child; and the third, likewise; <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and the seven took her, and left no child. Last of all, the woman also died. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Therefore, in the resurrection, when they rise, of which of them shall she be the wife? for the seven had her as a wife. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And Jesus answered and said to them: Do you not err for this reason, because you know not the scriptures, nor the power of God? <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels in heaven. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>But concerning the dead, that they do rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, at The Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. Therefore, you do greatly err.<CM><p> <A name="29"></a><p class="hdg">The Greatest Commandment<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/22.htm#34">Matthew 22:34–40</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And one of the scribes came, and heard them reasoning together; and perceiving that he had answered them well, he asked him: Which is the first commandment of all? <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And Jesus answered him: The first commandment of all is, Hear, Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And you shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and with your whole soul, and with your whole mind, and with your whole strength. This is the first commandment. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And the second, which is like it, is this: You shall love your neighbor as your self. There is no other commandment greater than these. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And the scribe said to him: Teacher, in truth you have well said, that there is one God, and there is no other beside him; <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>and to love him with the whole heart, and with the whole understanding, and with the whole soul, and with the whole strength, and to love one's neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices. <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And Jesus perceiving that he answered with understanding, said to him: You are not far from the kingdom of God. And no one, after that, ventured to ask him a question.<CM><p> <A name="36"></a><p class="hdg">Whose Son Is the Christ?<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/22.htm#41">Matthew 22:41–46</a>; <a href ="../luke/20.htm#41">Luke 20:41–44</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And Jesus, as he was teaching in the temple, answered and said: How say the scribes that the Christ is the son of David?<p> <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>For David himself said by the Holy Spirit: The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, till I make thy enemies thy footstool.<p> <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>David himself, then, calls him Lord; and how is he his son? And the great multitude heard him with pleasure.<p> <A name="39"></a><p class="hdg">Beware of the Scribes<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../luke/20.htm#45">Luke 20:45–47</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And he said to them in his teaching: Beware of the scribes, who love to walk in robes, and love salutations in the markets, <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>and the first seats in the synagogues, and the first places at suppers; <A name="41"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>who eat up the houses of widows, and, as a pretext, make long prayers: these shall receive more abundant condemnation.<CM><p> <A name="42"></a><p class="hdg">The Widow’s Offering<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../luke/21.htm">Luke 21:1–4</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>And Jesus, sitting opposite the treasury, observed how the multitude threw money into the treasury. And many rich persons threw in much. <A name="43"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>And there came one poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. <A name="44"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>And he called his disciples to him, and said to them: Verily I say to you, this poor widow has thrown in more than all that have thrown into the treasury. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>For all have thrown in out of their abundance; but she, out of her poverty, has thrown in all that she had, her whole living.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Anderson's New Testament (1865)<br><br>Digital Text Courtesy <a href="https://theword.net">TheWord.net Bible Software</a>.<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../mark/11.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Mark 11"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Mark 11" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../mark/13.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Mark 13"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Mark 13" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>