Mark 12:1-27

21st Century King James Version

12 And He began to speak unto them by parables: “A certain man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and dug a place for the wine vat, and built a watchtower; and he leased it out to husbandmen and went into a far country.

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

³ And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.

⁴ And again he sent unto them another servant, and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.

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

⁶ Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, ‘They will reverence my son.’

⁷ But those husbandmen said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.’

⁸ And they took him and killed him, and cast him 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 unto others.

¹⁰ And have ye not read this Scripture? ‘The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner;

¹¹ this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.’”

¹² And they sought to lay hold on Him, but they feared the people, for they knew that He had spoken the parable against them. And they left Him, and went their way.

¹³ And they sent unto Him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to catch Him in His words.

¹⁴ And when they had come, they said unto Him, “Master, we know that thou art true and carest for no man; for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?

¹⁵ Shall we give, or shall we not give?” But He, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, “Why tempt ye Me? Bring Me a penny, that I may see it.”

¹⁶ And they brought it, and He said unto them, “Whose image and superscription is this?” And they said unto Him, “Caesar’s.”

¹⁷ And Jesus answering, said unto them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they marveled at Him.

¹⁸ Then came unto Him the Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked Him, saying,

¹⁹ “Master, Moses wrote unto us that if a man’s brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, then his brother should take his wife and raise up seed unto his brother.

²⁰ Now there were seven brethren; and the first took a wife, and dying, left no seed.

²¹ And the second took her and died, neither leaving any seed. And the third likewise.

²² So the seven had her and left no seed. Last of all the woman died also.

²³ In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be, for all seven had her for a wife?”

²⁴ And Jesus answering, said unto them, “Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the Scriptures, neither the power of God?

²⁵ For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels who are in Heaven.

²⁶ And concerning the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spoke unto 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 the God of the living. Ye therefore do greatly err.”