Mark 12:9-14

9 “What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.

10 Haven’t you read this passage of Scripture: “ ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;

11 the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’^[a] ?”

12 Then the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders looked for a way to arrest him because they knew he had spoken the parable against them. But they were afraid of the crowd; so they left him and went away.

Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar

13 Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words.

14 They came to him and said, “Teacher, we know that you are a man of integrity. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay the imperial tax^[b] to Caesar or not?

Cross References

• 1. S Acts 4:11
• 2. Psalms 118:22,23
• 3. S Mark 11:18
• 4. Matthew 22:22
• 5. Matthew 22:16; Mark 3:6
• 6. S Matthew 12:10

Footnotes

• [a] Psalm 118:22,23
• [b] A special tax levied on subject peoples, not on Roman citizens