Mark 12:1-27

Darby Translation

12 And he began to say to them in parables, A man planted a vineyard, and made a fence round [it] and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.

² And he sent a bondman to the husbandmen at the season, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.

³ But they took him, and beat [him], and sent [him] away empty.

⁴ And again he sent to them another bondman; and [at] him they [threw stones, and] struck [him] on the head, and sent [him] away with insult.

⁵ And [again] he sent another, and him they killed; and many others, beating some and killing some.

⁶ Having yet therefore one beloved son, he sent also him to them the last, saying, They will have respect for my son.

⁷ But those husbandmen said to one another, This is the heir: come, let us kill him and the inheritance will be ours.

⁸ And they took him and killed him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard.

⁹ What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.

¹⁰ Have ye not even read this scripture, The stone which they that builded rejected, this has become the corner-stone:

¹¹ this is of [the] Lord, and it is wonderful in our eyes?

¹² And they sought to lay hold of him, and they feared the crowd; for they knew that he had spoken the parable of them. And they left him and went away.

¹³ And they send to him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might catch him in speaking.

¹⁴ And they come and say to him, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and carest not for any one; for thou regardest not men's person, but teachest the way of God with truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not?

¹⁵ Should we give, or should we not give? But he knowing their hypocrisy said unto them, Why tempt ye me? Bring me a denarius that I may see [it].

¹⁶ And they brought [it]. And he says to them, Whose [is] this image and superscription? And they said to him, Caesar's.

¹⁷ And Jesus answering said to them, Pay what is Caesar's to Caesar, and what is God's to God. And they wondered at him.

¹⁸ And Sadducees come to him, that say there is no resurrection; and they demanded of him saying,

¹⁹ Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if any one's brother die, and leave a wife behind, and leave no children, that his brother shall take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.

²⁰ There were seven brethren; and the first took a wife, and dying did not leave seed;

²¹ and the second took her and died, and neither did he leave seed; and the third likewise.

²² And the seven [took her and] did not leave seed. Last of all the woman also died.

²³ In the resurrection, when they shall rise again, of which of them shall she be wife, for the seven had her as wife?

²⁴ And Jesus answering said to them, Do not ye therefore err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God?

²⁵ For when they rise from among [the] dead they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels [who are] in the heavens.

²⁶ But concerning the dead that they rise, have ye not read in the book of Moses, in [the section of] the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, *I* [am] the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

²⁷ He is not the God of [the] dead, but of [the] living. *Ye* therefore greatly err.