Mark 12:9

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants, and will give the vineyard to others.”

What this verse means

Read Mark 12:9 in the flow of Mark12 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open Mark12 to see the surrounding context.

Compare translations
BSBPD

“What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants, and will give the vineyard to others.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
Open the full comparison
Cross references

Other passages that echo Mark 12:9 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 26:15and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
  2. Leviticus 26:23And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,
  3. Leviticus 26:27But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,
  4. Deuteronomy 4:26I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
  5. Deuteronomy 28:15If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
  6. Joshua 23:15But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you.
  7. Proverbs 1:24Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
  8. Isaiah 5:5Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.
  9. Isaiah 29:17In a very short time, will not Lebanon become an orchard, and the orchard seem like a forest?
  10. Isaiah 32:15until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.
  11. Isaiah 65:15You will leave behind your name as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but to His servants He will give another name.
  12. Jeremiah 17:3O My mountain in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, because of the sin of your high places, within all your borders.
  13. Daniel 9:26Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
  14. Zechariah 13:7Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd,against the man who is My Companion,declares the LORD of Hosts.Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered,and I will turn My hand against the little ones.
  15. Malachi 1:11For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of Hosts.
  16. Matthew 3:9And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
  17. Matthew 8:11I say to you that many will come from the east and the west to share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
  18. Matthew 12:45Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and dwell there; and the final plight of that man is worse than the first. So will it be with this wicked generation.”
  19. Matthew 21:40Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard returns, what will he do to those tenants?”
  20. Matthew 21:43Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.
  21. Matthew 22:7The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.
  22. Matthew 23:34Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.
  23. Luke 19:27And these enemies of mine who were unwilling for me to rule over them, bring them here and slay them in front of me.’”
  24. Luke 19:41As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Keep exploring
Read Mark 12 in fullTopics & themesBible answers