Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
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Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
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Yet had he one sonne whom he loved tenderly him also he sent at the last vnto them sayinge: they wyll feare my sonne.
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Yet had he one sonne, his deare beloued: him also he sent the last vnto them, saying, They will reuerence my sonne.
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Passages linked to Mark 12:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Matthew 3:17 Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
- Hebrews 1:1-2 God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
- John 1:34 I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God.”
- Genesis 22:2 He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”
- Genesis 22:12 He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
- Genesis 37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colors.
- Psalms 2:12 Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
- Isaiah 42:1 “Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.
- Matthew 1:23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;” which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”
- Matthew 11:27 All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.
- Matthew 17:5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”
- Matthew 26:63 But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
- Mark 1:11 A voice came out of the sky, “You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
- Mark 9:7 A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”
- Luke 3:22 and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”
- Luke 9:35 A voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!”
- John 1:14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
- John 1:18 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.
- John 1:49 Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”
- John 3:16-18 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
- John 3:35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
- John 5:23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.
- Hebrews 1:6 When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.”
- 1 John 4:9 By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
- 1 John 5:11-12 The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn’t have God’s Son doesn’t have the life.
- Revelation 5:9-13 They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation, and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.” I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders. The number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands; saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!” I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!”
- Genesis 37:11-13 His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind. His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem. Israel said to Joseph, “Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” He said to him, “Here I am.”
- Genesis 44:20 We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’
- Psalms 2:7 I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 5 And again he sent another; and him they…
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.
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Ver. 6. They will reverence my son] They will surely be ashamed to look him in the face. This is the proper signification of the word εντραπησονται. But sin had woaded {a} an impudence in their faces, that they could blush no more than a sackbut.
{a} To dye, colour, or stain with woad, sometimes (in dyeing) as a ground for another colour. ŒD
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Having yet therefore one son, his well beloved,.... The…
Having yet therefore one son, his well beloved,.... The Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the one, and only Son of God his Father, his only begotten Son, for he has no other Son in the same way of filiation; and who is his dear Son, the Son of his love, who was loved by him before the foundation of the world; and whom he declared to be his beloved Son, both at his baptism, and at his transfiguration upon the mount, by a voice from heaven: this Son he having with him, in his bosom, as one brought up with him, and rejoicing before him,
he sent him also last unto them; after all the prophets had been with them, when the last days were come, the end of the Jewish state, civil and ecclesiastical; see Heb 1:1;
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saying, they will reverence my son. The Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions read, "perhaps they will reverence my son", as in Luk 20:13; See Gill on Mat 21:37.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6. Having yet therefore] Note here the description of…
6. Having yet therefore] Note here the description of this last of the ambassadors of the householder. Not only was he his son, but his only one, his well-beloved, “a sone most dereworth,” Wyclif. This marks as strongly as possible the difference of rank between Christ and the prophets, by whom “at sundry times and in divers manners God spake in times past unto the fathers” (Heb_1:1), the distinction between them and the dignity of Him, Who only was in the highest sense His Son, and Whom He hath “appointed heir of all things” (Heb_1:2; Heb_3:5-6).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (6) His well-beloved.—Added by St. Mark to St. Matthew’s…
(6) His well-beloved.—Added by St. Mark to St. Matthew’s briefer form, “he sent unto them his son.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 6-8. Having yet therefore one son, his well-beloved.…
Vers. 6-8. Having yet therefore one son, his well-beloved. There is strong evidence in favor of a different reading here: namely (eti ena eicen uion), he had yet one, a beloved son. There is something very touching in this form of expression. Many messages had been sent; many means had been tried. But one other resource remained. "There is one, a beloved on. I will send him; they will, surely reverence him (entraphsontai ton mou). They will reflect, and reflection will bring shame and submission and reverence." This was the last effort of Divine mercy the sending of the Incarnate God, whom the Jews put to death without the city. St. Mark"s words seem rather to imply that they killed him within the vineyard, and cast out the dead body. But it is possible that in his narrative he mentions the climax firstthey killed him, and then returns to a detail of the dreadful tragedy; they cast him out of the vineyard, and there slew him (See Mat_21:39)
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Alexander MacLaren 1905 · Public Domain
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GOD’S LAST ARROW
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Mar 12:6.
Reference to Isa 5:1 - Isa 5:30 There are differences in detail here which need not trouble us.
Isaiah’s parable is a review of the theocratic history of Israel, and clearly the messengers are the prophets; here Christ speaks of Himself and His own mission to Israel, and goes on to tell of His death as already accomplished.
I. The Son who follows and surpasses the servants.
{a} Our Lord here places Himself in the line of the prophets as coming for a similar purpose. The mission to Israel was the same. The mission of His life was the same.
The last words of the lawgiver certainly point to a person {Deu 18:18}: ‘A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you like unto me. Him shall ye hear.’ How ridiculous the cool superciliousness with which modern historical criticism ‘pooh-poohs’ that interpretation! But the contrast is quite as prominent as the resemblance. This saying is one which occurs in all the Synoptics, and is as full a declaration of Sonship as any in John’s Gospel. It reposes on the scene at the baptism {Mat 3:17}: ‘This is My beloved Son!’ Such a saying was well enough understood by the Jews to mean more than the ‘Messiah.’ It clearly involves kindred to the divine in a far other and higher sense than any prophet ever had it. It involves pre-existence. It asserts that He was the special object of the divine love, the ‘heir.’
You cannot relieve the New Testament Christ of the responsibility of having made such assertions. There they are! He did deliberately declare that He was, in a unique sense, ‘the Son’ on whom the love and complacency of the Father rested continually.
II. The aggravation of men’s sins as tending to the enhancement of the divine efforts.
The terrible Nemesis of evil is that it ever tends to reproduce itself in aggravated forms. Think of the influence of habit; the searing of conscience, so that we become able to do things that we would have shrunk from at an earlier stage. Remember how impunity leads to greater sin. So here the first servant is merely sent away empty, the second is wounded and disgraced, the third is killed. All evil is an inclined plane, a steady, downward progress. How beautifully the opposite principle of the divine love and patience is represented as striving with the increasing hate and resistance! According to Matthew, the householder sent other servants ‘more than the first,’ and the climax was that he sent his son. Mightier forces are brought to bear. This attraction increases as the square of the distance. The blacker the cloud, the brighter the sun; the thicker the ice, the hotter the flame; the harder the soil, the stronger the ploughshare. Note, too, the undertone of sacrifice and of yearning for the son which may be discerned in the ‘householder’s’ words. The son is his ‘dearest treasure,’ his mightiest gift, than which is nothing higher.
The mission of Christ is the ultimate appeal of God to men.
In the primary sense of the parable Jesus does close the history of the divine strivings with Israel. After Christ, the last of the prophets, the divine voice ceases; after the blaze of that light all is dark. There is nothing more remarkable in the whole history of the world than that cessation in an instant, as it were, of the long, august series of divine efforts for Israel. Henceforward there is an awful silence. ‘Forsaken Israel wanders lone.’
And the principle involved for us is the same.
‘Christ crucified’ is more than Christ miracle-working. That ‘more’ we have, as the Jews had. But if that avails not, then nothing else will.
He is ‘last’ because highest, strongest, and all-sufficient.
He is ‘last’ inasmuch as all since are but echoes of His voice and proclaimers of His grace.
He is ‘last’ as the eternal and the permanent, the ‘same for ever’ {Heb 13:8}. There are to be no new powers for the world; no new forces to draw men to God. God’s quiver is empty, His last bolt shot, His most tender appeal made.
III. The unwearied divine charity.
‘They will reverence My Son.’ May we not say this is a divine hope? It is not worth while to make a difficulty of the bold representation. It is but parallel to all the dealings of God with men; and it sets forth the possibility that He might have won Israel back to God and to obedience. It suggests the good faith and the earnestness with which God sent Him, and He came, to bring Israel back to God. But we are not to suppose that this divine hope excluded the divine purpose of His death or was inconsistent with that, for He goes on to speak of His death as if it were past {Mar 12:8}. This shows how distinctly He foreknew it.
Its highest aspect is not here, for it was not needed for the parable. ‘With wicked hands ye have crucified,’ etc., is true, as well as ‘I lay it down of Myself.’
Let us lay to heart the solemn love which warns by prophesying, tells what men are going to do in order that they may not do it {and what He will do in order that He may not have to do it}. And let us yield ourselves to the power of Christ’s death as God’s magnet for drawing us all back to Him; and as certain to bring about at last the satisfaction of the Father’s long-frustrated hope: ‘They will reverence my Son,’ and the fulfilment of the Son’s long-unaccomplished prediction: ‘I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me.’
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain Jesus Himself. Cf. Heb 1:1-3
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Jesus Himself. Cf. Heb 1:1-3
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 a beloved son
a beloved son
It is implied that this is the owner's son. AT: "his beloved son" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
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the heir
This is the owner's heir, who would inherit the vineyard after his father died. AT: "the owner's heir" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
the inheritance
The tenants are referring to the vineyard as "the inheritance." AT: "this vineyard" (See: Synecdoche)
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beloved
heir
inherit
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 12:6 Mark’s early readers would have immediately associated his…
12:6 Mark’s early readers would have immediately associated his son whom he loved dearly with Jesus (cp. 1:11; 9:7; see also 1:1; 3:11; 5:7).
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