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Mark 12:9

What then will the master of the garden do? He will come and put the workmen to death, and will give the garden into the hands of others.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Capital and Labor;   Church;   Eviction;   God Continued...;   Husbandman;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Lease;   Reproof;   Self-Condemnation;   Servant;   Tenants;   Unfaithfulness;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Business Life;   Capital and Labour;   Labour;   Labour Troubles;   Land;   Real Estate;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Death of Christ;   Faith;   Kill, Killing;   Suffering;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Agriculture;   Economic Life;   Mark, the Gospel of;   Parables;   Patience;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Mss;   Peter, First Epistle of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Allegory;   Character;   Corner-Stone ;   Fellowship (2);   God (2);   Husbandman ;   Justice (2);   Lord's Supper. (I.);   Mental Characteristics;   Messiah;   Owner ;   Parable;   People ;   Preaching Christ;   Punishment (2);   Questions and Answers;   Trinity (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Mark, the Gospel According to;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
What then will the owner
King James Version (1611)
What shall therefore the Lord of the vineyard doe? He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will giue the vineyard vnto others.
King James Version
What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
English Standard Version
What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others.
New American Standard Bible
"What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and put the vine-growers to death, and give the vineyard to others.
New Century Version
"So what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those farmers and will give the vineyard to other farmers.
Amplified Bible
"What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants, and will give the vineyard to others.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vine-growers, and will give the vineyard to others.
Legacy Standard Bible
What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vine-growers, and will give the vineyard to others.
Berean Standard Bible
What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants, and will give the vineyard to others.
Contemporary English Version
Jesus asked, "What do you think the owner of the vineyard will do? He will come and kill those renters and let someone else have his vineyard.
Complete Jewish Bible
What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come, destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others!
Darby Translation
What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.
Easy-to-Read Version
"So what will the man who owns the vineyard do? He will go and kill those farmers. Then he will lease the land to others.
Geneva Bible (1587)
What shall then the Lord of the vineyard doe? He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and giue the vineyard to others.
George Lamsa Translation
What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those laborers, and give the vineyard to others.
Good News Translation
"What, then, will the owner of the vineyard do?" asked Jesus. "He will come and kill those tenants and turn the vineyard over to others.
Lexham English Bible
What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenant farmers and give the vineyard to others.
Literal Translation
What, then, will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and will destroy the vinedressers and will give the vineyard to others.
American Standard Version
What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
Hebrew Names Version
What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.
International Standard Version
"Now what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers and give the vineyard to others.
Etheridge Translation
What therefore shall the Lord of the vinery do ? He will come, destroy those labourers, and will give the vinery to others.
Murdock Translation
What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those husbandmen, and transfer the vineyard to others.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
What shall therfore, the Lorde of the vineyarde do? He shal come, and destroy the husbandmen, and wyll geue the vineyarde vnto other.
English Revised Version
What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
World English Bible
What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.
Weymouth's New Testament
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."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thanne what schal the lord of the vynyerd do? He schal come, and lese the tilieris, and yyue the vynyerd to othere.
Update Bible Version
What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.
Webster's Bible Translation
What therefore will the Lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.
New English Translation
What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.
New King James Version
"Therefore what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vinedressers, and give the vineyard to others.
New Living Translation
"What do you suppose the owner of the vineyard will do?" Jesus asked. "I'll tell you—he will come and kill those farmers and lease the vineyard to others.
New Life Bible
What will the owner of the field do? He will come and kill the farmers. He will give the field to other farmers.
New Revised Standard
What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
What will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come, and destroy the husbandmen, and let the vineyard unto others.
Douay-Rheims Bible
What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those husbandmen and will give the vineyard to others.
Revised Standard Version
What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants, and give the vineyard to others.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
What shall then the lorde of the vyneyarde do? He will come and destroye ye tenauntes and let out the vyneyarde to other.
Young's Literal Translation
`What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
What shal now the lorde of the vynyarde do? He shal come and destroye the hussbande men, and geue the vynyarde vnto other.
Mace New Testament (1729)
now what will the master of the vineyard do? on his return, said they, he will destroy those vine-dressers, and give his vineyard to others.
THE MESSAGE
"What do you think the owner of the vineyard will do? Right. He'll come and clean house. Then he'll assign the care of the vineyard to others. Read it for yourselves in Scripture: That stone the masons threw out is now the cornerstone! This is God's work; we rub our eyes—we can hardly believe it!"
Simplified Cowboy Version
Jesus continued the story, "So what do y'all think the rancher will do? He will come back himself and kill those no-account rustlers and give the ranch to other cowboys who will be thankful for the opportunity to ride for him.

Contextual Overview

1 And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country. 2 And when the time came, he sent a servant to get from the workmen some of the fruit of the garden. 3 And they took him, and gave him blows, and sent him away with nothing. 4 And again he sent to them another servant; and they gave him wounds on the head, and were very cruel to him. 5 And he sent another; and they put him to death: and a number of others, whipping some, and putting some to death. 6 He still had one, a dearly loved son: he sent him last to them, saying, They will have respect for my son. 7 But those workmen said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death, and the heritage will be ours. 8 And they took him and put him to death, pushing his body out of the garden. 9 What then will the master of the garden do? He will come and put the workmen to death, and will give the garden into the hands of others. 10 Have you not seen this which is in the Writings: The stone which the builders put on one side, the same was made the chief stone of the building:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shall: Matthew 21:40, Matthew 21:41

he will: Leviticus 26:15-18, Leviticus 26:23, Leviticus 26:24, Leviticus 26:27, Leviticus 26:28, Deuteronomy 4:26, Deuteronomy 4:27, Deuteronomy 28:15-68, Deuteronomy 28:61, Joshua 23:15, Proverbs 1:24-31, Isaiah 5:5-7, Daniel 9:26, Daniel 9:27, Zechariah 13:7-9, Matthew 3:9-12, Matthew 12:45, Matthew 22:7, Matthew 23:34-38, Luke 19:27, Luke 19:41-44, Luke 20:15, Luke 20:16

and will: Isaiah 29:17, Isaiah 32:15, Isaiah 32:16, Isaiah 65:15, Jeremiah 17:3, Malachi 1:11, Matthew 8:11-13, Matthew 21:43, Acts 13:46-48, Acts 28:23-28, Romans 9:30-33, Romans 10:20, Romans 10:21, Romans 11:1-12

Reciprocal: Isaiah 5:3 - judge Hosea 4:6 - I will also reject Matthew 13:12 - from Revelation 2:5 - else

Cross-References

Genesis 12:13
Say, then, that you are my sister, and so it will be well with me because of you, and my life will be kept safe on your account.
Genesis 12:14
And so it was that when Abram came into Egypt, the men of Egypt, looking on the woman, saw that she was fair.
Genesis 13:1
And Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all he had, and Lot with him, and they came in to the South.
Genesis 13:3
And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai;
Genesis 24:62
Now Isaac had come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South.
Psalms 105:13
When they went about from one nation to another, and from one kingdom to another people.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

What shall therefore the Lord of the vineyard do?.... The Arabic and Ethiopic versions add, to them; that is, to the husbandmen, as is expressed in Matthew 21:40,

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; Matthew 21:40- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this parable explained in the notes at Matthew 21:33-46.

See this parable explained in the notes at Matthew 21:33-46.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Mark 12:9. And will give the vineyard unto others. — The vineyard must not perish with the husbandmen; it is still capable of producing much fruit, if it be properly cultivated. I will give it into the care of new vine-dressers, the evangelists and apostles. - And under their ministry, multitudes were brought to God before the destruction of Jerusalem.


 
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