Mark 12:10

10 "Have you not read even this passage," He added, "`The stone which the builders rejected has become the Cornerstone:

Mark 12:10 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 12:10

And have ye not read this Scripture?
&c.] In ( Psalms 118:22 Psalms 118:23 ) these are the words of Christ directed to the above persons, who were, many of them, teachers of the people, and therefore ought to have read the scriptures, and have taken notice of, and considered more especially such as respected the Messiah, as this passage did, and was very appropriate to the case in the parable Christ had respect unto:

the stone which the builders rejected, is become the head of the
corner:
by "the stone" is meant the same with the son and heir in the parable, even himself, the true Messiah; and by "the builders", the chief priests, Scribes, and elders, the same with the husbandmen, whose rejection of the stone, or of the Messiah, is signified by their seizing him, casting him out of the vineyard, and killing him; and yet notwithstanding all this, according to this Scripture, he was to be, and now is become, the head of the corner, exalted above angels and men, at the right hand of God; (See Gill on Matthew 21:42).

Mark 12:10 In-Context

8 "So they took him and killed him, and flung his body outside the vineyard.

9 What, therefore, will the owner of the vineyard do?" "He will come and put the vine-dressers to death," they said; "and will give the vineyard to others."

10 "Have you not read even this passage," He added, "`The stone which the builders rejected has become the Cornerstone:

11 this Cornerstone came from the Lord, and is wonderful in our esteem?'"

12 And they kept looking out for an opportunity to seize Him, but were afraid of the people; for they saw that in this parable He had referred to *them*. So they left Him and went away.