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He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="red">At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="red">But they seized him, beat him and sent him away empty-handed.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="red">Then he sent another servant to them; they struck this man on the head and treated him shamefully.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="red">He sent still another, and that one they killed. He sent many others; some of them they beat, others they killed.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="red">“He had one left to send, a son, whom he loved. He sent him last of all, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="red">“But the tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="red">So they took him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="red">“What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="red">Haven’t you read this passage of Scripture:</span></p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="red">“ ‘The stone the builders rejected</span></p><p class="line2"><span class="red">has become the cornerstone;</span></p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="red">the Lord has done this,</span></p><p class="line2"><span class="red">and it is marvelous in our eyes’ <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Psalm 118:22,23">a</a></sup></span> ?”</span></p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders looked for a way to arrest him because they knew he had spoken the parable against them. But they were afraid of the crowd; so they left him and went away.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They came to him and said, “Teacher, we know that you are a man of integrity. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay the imperial tax <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A special tax levied on subject peoples, not on Roman citizens">b</a></sup></span> to Caesar or not? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Should we pay or shouldn’t we?”</p><p class="reg">But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. <span class="red">“Why are you trying to trap me?”</span> he asked. <span class="red">“Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>They brought the coin, and he asked them, <span class="red">“Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”</span></p><p class="reg">“Caesar’s,” they replied.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then Jesus said to them, <span class="red">“Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.”</span></p><p class="reg">And they were amazed at him.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Marriage at the Resurrection</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died without leaving any children. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The second one married the widow, but he also died, leaving no child. It was the same with the third. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>In fact, none of the seven left any children. Last of all, the woman died too. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>At the resurrection <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts resurrection, when people rise from the dead,">c</a></sup></span> whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Jesus replied, <span class="red">“Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="red">When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="red">Now about the dead rising—have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the account of the burning bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’ <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Exodus 3:6">d</a></sup></span> ?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="red">He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”</span></p> <p class="sectionhead">The Greatest Commandment</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="red">“The most important one,”</span> answered Jesus, <span class="red">“is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or The Lord our God is one Lord">e</a></sup></span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="red">Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Deut. 6:4,5">f</a></sup></span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="red">The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Lev. 19:18">g</a></sup></span> There is no commandment greater than these.”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>“Well said, teacher,” the man replied. “You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, <span class="red">“You are not far from the kingdom of God.”</span> And from then on no one dared ask him any more questions.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Whose Son Is the Messiah?</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he asked, <span class="red">“Why do the teachers of the law say that the Messiah is the son of David?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="red">David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit, declared:</span></p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="red">“ ‘The Lord said to my Lord:</span></p><p class="line2"><span class="red">“Sit at my right hand</span></p><p class="line1"><span class="red">until I put your enemies</span></p><p class="line2"><span class="red">under your feet.” ’ <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Psalm 110:1">h</a></sup></span> </span></p></div> <p class="pcontinued"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="red">David himself calls him ‘Lord.’ How then can he be his son?”</span></p><p class="reg">The large crowd listened to him with delight.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Warning Against the Teachers of the Law</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>As he taught, Jesus said, <span class="red">“Watch out for the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and be greeted with respect in the marketplaces,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span><span class="red">and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span><span class="red">They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.”</span></p> <p class="sectionhead">The Widow’s Offering</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, <span class="red">“Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/12-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span><span class="red">They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”</span></p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotebot">Psalm 118:22,23</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotebot">A special tax levied on subject peoples, not on Roman citizens</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">23</span> <span class="footnotebot">Some manuscripts <i>resurrection, when people rise from the dead,</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> <span class="footnotebot">Exodus 3:6</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">29</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>The Lord our God is one Lord</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">30</span> <span class="footnotebot">Deut. 6:4,5</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">31</span> <span class="footnotebot">Lev. 19:18</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">h</span> <span class="fnverse">36</span> <span class="footnotebot">Psalm 110:1</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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