Mark 12:9

9 What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenant farmers and give the vineyard to others.

Mark 12:9 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 12:9

What shall therefore the Lord of the vineyard do?
&c.] The Arabic and Ethiopic versions add, to them; that is, to the husbandmen, as is expressed in ( Matthew 21:40 ) , (See Gill on Matthew 21:40):

he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard
unto others.
As the former clause contains a question put by Christ upon his having finished the parable, this is an answer to it, given by the chief priests, Scribes, and elders, in whose presence, and for whose sake it was delivered; (See Gill on Matthew 21:41).

Mark 12:9 In-Context

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.

9 What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenant farmers and give the vineyard to others.

10 Have you not read this scripture: 'The stone which the builders rejected, this has become {the cornerstone}.

11 This came about from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?"

Footnotes

• [a] Some manuscripts have "What then"