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Mark 12
1 And he began to speak unto
them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge
about it, and digged a pit for the winepress, and built a
tower, and let it out to tenant farmers, and went into another
country. 2 And at the season he sent to the tenant farmers a
servant, that he might receive from the tenant farmers of
the fruits of the vineyard. 3 And they took him, and beat him,
and sent him away empty. 4 And again he sent unto them another
servant; and him they wounded in the head, and handled
shamefully. 5 And he sent another; and him they killed: and
many others; beating some, and killing some. 6 He had yet one,
a beloved son: he sent him last unto them, saying, They will
reverence my son. 7 But those tenant farmers 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 forth out of the vineyard. 9 What therefore will the lord
of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the tenant farmers, and
will give the vineyard unto others.
10 Have ye not read even this scripture: The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner; 11 This was from Jehovah(a), And it is marvellous in our eyes?
12 And they sought to lay hold on him; and they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spake the parable against them: and they left him, and went away.
13 And they send unto him
certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might
catch him in talk. 14 And when they were come, they say unto
him, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and carest not for
any one; for thou regardest not the person of men(b),
but of a truth teachest the way of God: Is it lawful to give
tribute unto Caesar, or not? 15 Shall we give, or shall we not
give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why
make ye trial of me? bring me a denarius, 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 said unto them, Render unto Caesar the things that
are Caesar`s(c), and unto God the things that are
God`s. And they marvelled greatly at him.
18 And there come unto him
Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection; and they
began to question him, saying, 19 Teacher, Moses wrote
unto us, If a man`s brother die, and leave a wife behind him,
and leave no child, that his brother should take the wife,
and raise up seed(d) unto his brother. 20 There were
seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no
seed; 21 and the second took her, and died, leaving no seed
behind him; and the third likewise: 22 and the seven left no
seed. Last of all the woman also died. 23 In the resurrection
[when they rise] whose wife shall she be of them? for
the seven had her to wife. 24 Jesus said unto them, Is it not
for this cause that ye err, that ye know not the scriptures,
nor the power of God? 25 For when they shall rise from the
dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are
as angels in heaven. 26 But as touching the dead, that they
are raised; have ye not read in the book of Moses, in [the
place concerning] the Bush(e), how 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 God of the dead, but of
the living: ye do greatly err.
28 And one of the scribes
came, and heard them questioning together, and seeing that
he had answered them well, asked him, What commandment
is the first of all? 29 Jesus answered, The first is, Hear, O
Israel; Jehovah is our God, Jehovah alone(f): 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. 31 The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor
as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than
these. 32 And the scribe said unto him, Of a truth, Teacher,
thou hast well said that he is one; 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 strength, and to love his
neighbor as himself, is much more than all whole
burnt-offerings and sacrifices. 34 And when Jesus saw him,
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, as he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that the
Christ is the son of David? 36 David himself said in the holy
spirit,
Jehovah(g) said unto
my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, Till I make thy enemies under
thy feet.
37 David himself calleth him Lord; and how is he his son? And the common people heard him gladly.
38 And in his teaching he
said, Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes,
and [to have] salutations in the marketplaces, 39 and chief
seats in the synagogues, and chief places at feasts: 40 they
that devour widows` houses, and for a pretence make long
prayers; these shall receive greater condemnation.
41 And he sat down over
against the treasury, and beheld how the multitude cast money
into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. 42
And there came a poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which
make a penny(h). 43 And he called unto him his
disciples, and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, This
poor widow cast in more than all they that are casting into
the treasury: 44 for they all did cast in of their abundance;
but she of her want did cast in all that she had, [even] all
her living(i).
Footnotes
(a) From Psalms
118:22, 23. See also Heinfetter
& NWT.
(b) TCNT: "Teacher, we know that you are an honest man,
and are not afraid of any one, for you pay no regard to a
man's position, but teach the Way of God honestly."
(c) Jesus’s
injunction to "render unto Caesar the things that are
Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s" is a tacit
endorsement of property rights."To say certain things 'are'
anyone’s assumes ownership." Lawrence W. Reed, Was Jesus
a Socialist?"
(d) Moffatt: "if a man's brother dies leaving a wife
but no child, his brother is to take the woman and raise
offspring for his brother."
(e) Exodus 3:2-6
(f) Deuteronomy 6:4. "Observe how solemn is this
affirmation of the old doctrine; it is a reënactment of the
great central law of the Jewish religion, without one word
of amendment or qualification. Can we ask any thing more?
But we have more, if possible. If this were all, it might
perhaps be argued that the word 'God' includes the idea of
tri-personality in the Father, Son, and Spirit; but the
Saviour has forbidden such a construction by teaching us,
that the God of whom he spoke is the Father only. We once
more refer to the words of our text, words of prayer to the
Father: 'This is life eternal, that they may know thee the
only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.' He
speaks of himself, the Son, as a separate being, dependent
on the Father. 'Glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may
glorify thee.' Again, in his prediction of his heavenly
exaltation he says, 'Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on
the right hand of the power of God.' So when in the garden
of Gethsemane he prayed to the Father, 'Not my will, but
thine be done.' And on the cross, in the time of his last
agony, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' and yet
once more, after his resurrection, he said to his disciples,
'I ascend unto my Father and to your Father, to my God and
to your God.' Thus, through his whole ministry, he used the
same uniform and familiar language. I ask you again to
remember that this language was addressed to those who had
no conception of any other doctrine than the absolute Unity
of God. How must they have understood it? I think, just as
we understand it now, when we say, "To us there is but one
God, even the Father." William G. Eliot Jr., The Unity of
God 1853
(g) Jehovah is placed here
instead of "the Lord." I cannot imagine anyone in the 1st
century actually saying "lord" here instead of the Divine
Name. The usual English translation of "The Lord said to
my Lord" appears to blur the distinction being made at Ps
110:1. "By the Lord that said, is meant 'Jehovah' the
Father."~John Gill; "Jehovah said unto Adonai. Quoted from
Psa_110:1."~Bullinger.
At Ps 110:1 the word for "lord" in Hebrew is Adoni, a word
never used for "God". Adoni is used for humans and angels.
The title "Adonai" is used for God. The difference seems
small to the lay reader, but it is significant.
(h) ED, Darby, Noyes, Julia Smith and the RV uses
"farthing" here.
(i) "For every one else put in something from what
he had to spare, while she, in her need, put in all she
had--everything that she had to live on." TCNT
Can any theologian throughout all Christendom to-day give us any intelligible account of its origin and primary meaning? Not one. For that we must go to mythology, which was earlier than our theology, and which alone enables us to explain its primitive mysteries. ~Gerald Massey
https://newworldtranslation.blogspot.com/2019/08/gerald-massey-on-trinity-doctrine.html
