--- title: Mark 12 slug: kjv-nt/mark-12 createdAt: 2024-09-01T03:10:50.387Z --- **1 **And he began to speak unto them by parables. A *certain* man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about *it*, and digged *a place for* the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. **2 **And at the 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 shall therefore 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 is become the head of the corner: **11 **This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? **12 **And they sought to lay hold on him, but 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 send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in *his* words. **14 **And when they were come, they say 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 saith unto them, Whose *is* this image and superscription? 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 marvelled at him. **18 **Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying, **19 **Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave *his* wife *behind him*, and leave no children, that 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 left he any seed: and the third likewise. **22 **And 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 of them? for the seven had her to 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 which are in heaven. **26 **And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake 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. **28 **And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? **29 **And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments *is*, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: **30 **And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this *is* the first commandment. **31 **And the second *is* like, *namely* this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. **32 **And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he: **33 **And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love *his* neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. **34 **And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him *any question*. **35 **And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the Son of David? **36 **For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool. **37 **David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he *then* his son? And the common people heard him gladly. **38 **And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and *love* salutations in the marketplaces, **39 **And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts: **40 **Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation. **41 **And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. **42 **And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. **43 **And he called *unto him* his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: **44 **For all *they* did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, *even* all her living.