--- title: "Mark 12:1-27 KJV - \"And he began to speak unto them by par...\" | Real Bible Believers" description: "\"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 t\" — Read Mark 12:1-27 in the King James Version (KJV) with commentary, cross references, and Greek/Hebrew lexicon." image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/mark/12/1-27" --- [ Read](/kjv/mark/12)[ Commentary](/study/mark/12)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/mark/12) Audio ## Mark 12:1-27 in Context (Verses 1–30 KJV) [1 ](/kjv/mark/12/1) 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 ](/kjv/mark/12/2) 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 ](/kjv/mark/12/3) And they caught *him*, and beat him, and sent *him* away empty. [4 ](/kjv/mark/12/4) 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 ](/kjv/mark/12/5) And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some. [6 ](/kjv/mark/12/6) Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son. [7 ](/kjv/mark/12/7) But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours. [8 ](/kjv/mark/12/8) And they took him, and killed *him*, and cast *him* out of the vineyard. [9 ](/kjv/mark/12/9) What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others. [10 ](/kjv/mark/12/10) And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner: [11 ](/kjv/mark/12/11) This was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? [12 ](/kjv/mark/12/12) 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 ](/kjv/mark/12/13) ¶ And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in *his* words. [14 ](/kjv/mark/12/14) 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 Cæsar, or not? [15 ](/kjv/mark/12/15) 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 ](/kjv/mark/12/16) And they brought *it*. And he saith unto them, Whose *is* this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Cæsar’s. [17 ](/kjv/mark/12/17) And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Cæsar the things that are Cæsar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. And they marvelled at him. [18 ](/kjv/mark/12/18) ¶ Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying, [19 ](/kjv/mark/12/19) 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 ](/kjv/mark/12/20) Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed. [21 ](/kjv/mark/12/21) And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise. [22 ](/kjv/mark/12/22) And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also. [23 ](/kjv/mark/12/23) In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife. [24 ](/kjv/mark/12/24) And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? [25 ](/kjv/mark/12/25) 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 ](/kjv/mark/12/26) 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 ](/kjv/mark/12/27) He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err. [28 ](/kjv/mark/12/28) ¶ 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 ](/kjv/mark/12/29) And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments *is*, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: [30 ](/kjv/mark/12/30) 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. 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