Mark 12:6

6 He had one more, a beloved son. Last [of all] he sent him to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

Mark 12:6 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 12:6

Having yet therefore one son, his well beloved
The Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the one, and only Son of God his Father, his only begotten Son, for he has no other Son in the same way of filiation; and who is his dear Son, the Son of his love, who was loved by him before the foundation of the world; and whom he declared to be his beloved Son, both at his baptism, and at his transfiguration upon the mount, by a voice from heaven: this Son he having with him, in his bosom, as one brought up with him, and rejoicing before him,

he sent him also last unto them;
after all the prophets had been with them, when the last days were come, the end of the Jewish state, civil and ecclesiastical; see ( Hebrews 1:1 ) ;

saying, they will reverence my son.
The Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions read, "perhaps they will reverence my son", as in ( Luke 20:13 ) ; (See Gill on Matthew 21:37).

Mark 12:6 In-Context

4 And again he sent to them another slave, and that one they struck on the head and dishonored.
5 And he sent another, and that one they killed. And [he sent] many others, [some] of whom they beat and [some] of whom they killed.
6 He had one more, a beloved son. Last [of all] he sent him to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'
7 But those tenant farmers said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and the inheritance will be ours!'
8 And they seized [and] killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.
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