King James VersionMark12

Mark

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.