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The Good News According to Mark 12, World English Bible |
The Good News According to Mark, Chapter 12
{12:1} He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a
vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a
tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.
{12:2} When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from
the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard. {12:3} They took
him, beat him, and sent him away empty. {12:4} Again, he sent another
servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the
head, and sent him away shamefully treated. {12:5} Again he sent
another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and
killing some. {12:6} Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he
sent him last to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' {12:7} But
those farmers said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's
kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' {12:8} They took him,
killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. {12:9} What therefore
will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the
farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. {12:10} Haven't you
even read this Scripture:
'The stone which the builders rejected,
the same was made the head of the corner.
{12:11} This was from the Lord,
it is marvelous in our eyes'?"[1]
{12:12} They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for
they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him,
and went away. {12:13} They sent some of the Pharisees and of the
Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words. {12:14} When
they had come, they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you are honest,
and don't defer to anyone; for you aren't partial to anyone, but truly
teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?
{12:15} Shall we give, or shall we not give?"
But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why do you test me?
Bring me a denarius, that I may see it."
{12:16} They brought it.
He said to them, "Whose is this image and inscription?"
They said to him, "Caesar's."
{12:17} Jesus answered them, "Render to Caesar the things that are
Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
They marveled greatly at him.
{12:18} There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no
resurrection. They asked him, saying, {12:19} "Teacher, Moses wrote to
us, 'If a man's brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves
no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up
offspring for his brother.' {12:20} There were seven brothers. The
first took a wife, and dying left no offspring. {12:21} The second
took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third
likewise; {12:22} and the seven took her and left no children. Last of
all the woman also died. {12:23} In the resurrection, when they rise,
whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife."
{12:24} Jesus answered them, "Isn't this because you are mistaken,
not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God? {12:25} For when
they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in
marriage, but are like angels in heaven. {12:26} But about the dead,
that they are raised; haven't you read in the book of Moses, about the
Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God
of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'[2]? {12:27} He is not the God of the
dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken."
{12:28} One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning
together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, "Which
commandment is the greatest of all?"
{12:29} Jesus answered, "The greatest is, 'Hear, Israel, the Lord
our God, the Lord is one: {12:30} you shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind,
and with all your strength.'[3] This is the first commandment. {12:31}
The second is like this, 'You shall love your neighbor as
yourself.'[4] There is no other commandment greater than these."
{12:32} The scribe said to him, "Truly, teacher, you have said well
that he is one, and there is none other but he, {12:33} and to love
him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the
soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself,
is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."
{12:34} When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You
are not far from the Kingdom of God."
No one dared ask him any question after that. {12:35} Jesus
responded, as he taught in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say
that the Christ is the son of David? {12:36} For David himself said in
the Holy Spirit,
'The Lord said to my Lord,
"Sit at my right hand,
until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet."'[5]
{12:37} Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his
son?"
The common people heard him gladly. {12:38} In his teaching he said
to them, "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and
to get greetings in the marketplaces, {12:39} and the best seats in
the synagogues, and the best places at feasts: {12:40} those who
devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These
will receive greater condemnation."
{12:41} Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the
multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in
much. {12:42} A poor widow came, and she cast in two [6>]small brass
coins,[<6] which equal a [7>]quadrans coin.[<7] {12:43} He called his
disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most certainly I tell you,
this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the
treasury, {12:44} for they all gave out of their abundance, but she,
out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on."
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Footnotes:
[1] {12:11} Psalm 118:22-23
[2] {12:26} Exodus 3:6
[3] {12:30} Deuteronomy 6:4-5
[4] {12:31} Leviticus 19:18
[5] {12:36} Psalm 110:1
[6] {12:42} literally, lepta (or widow's mites). Lepta are very small
brass coins worth half a quadrans each, which is a quarter of the
copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural
worker's daily wages.
[7] {12:42} A quadrans is a coin worth about 1/64 of a denarius. A
denarius is about one day's wages for an agricultural laborer.
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