Marco 12:12

12 Ed essi cercavano di pigliarlo; perciocchè si avvidero ch’egli avea detta quella parabola contro a loro; ma temettero la moltitudine; e, lasciatolo, se ne andarono.

Marco 12:12 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 12:12

They sought to lay held on him
That is, the chief priests, Scribes, and elders, after they had heard the parables he spake to them, were greatly irritated, and provoked, and had a good will to have seized him, and carried him away, and have had him before their court, and condemn him:

but feared the people;
lest they should rise up in his defence, and fall on them; for many of them liked; and were attached to his ministry; and others had received favours of one kind or another from him through his miracles:

for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them:
and that they were the husbandmen designed, who had not brought the fruit of the vineyard to their lord, but had ill treated his servants, and would his son.

And they left him;
in the temple, not daring to do any thing to him:

and went their way;
to their council chamber, perhaps to consult what measures to take, and how to destroy him.

Marco 12:12 In-Context

10 Non avete ancor letta questa scrittura: La pietra, che gli edificatori hanno riprovata, è divenuta il capo del cantone;
11 ciò è stato fatto dal Signore, ed è cosa maravigliosa agli occhi nostri?
12 Ed essi cercavano di pigliarlo; perciocchè si avvidero ch’egli avea detta quella parabola contro a loro; ma temettero la moltitudine; e, lasciatolo, se ne andarono.
13 POI gli mandarono alcuni de’ Farisei, e degli Erodiani, acciocchè lo cogliessero in parole.
14 Ed essi, venuti, gli dissero: Maestro, noi sappiamo che tu sei verace, e che tu non ti curi di alcuno; perciocchè tu non hai riguardo alla qualità delle persone degli uomini, ma insegni la via di Dio in verità. È egli lecito di dare il censo a Cesare o no? glielo dobbiamo noi dare, o no?
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