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Mark 12:8 KJV
Mark · chapter 12 · verse 8
And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.Mark 12:8 · King James Version
Mark 12:8 in context
6Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
7But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our’s.
8And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
9What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
10And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- killedapokteinōto kill in any way whatever, to destroy, to allow to perish, metaph. to extinguish…G615 →
- tooklambanōto take, to take with the hand, lay hold of, any person or thing in order to use it, to…G2983 →
- castekballōto cast out, drive out, to send out, with notion of violence, to drive out , to cast out…G1544 →
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Christ had formerly in parables showed how he designed to set up the gospel church; now he begins in parables to show how he would lay aside the Jewish church, which it might have been grafted into the stock of, but was built upon the ruins of. This parable we had just as we have it here, Mat 21:33.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-12