MARK 12:1-27
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.
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.
12:3 And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
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.
12:5 And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating 
some, and killing some.
12:6 Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto 
them, saying, They will reverence my son.
12:7 But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us 
kill him, and the inheritance shall be our's.
12:8 And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
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.
12:10 And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders 
rejected is become the head of the corner:
12:11 This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
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.
12:13 And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to 
catch him in his words.
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 Caesar, or 
not?
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.
12:16 And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and 
superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's.
12:17 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.
12:18 Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and 
they asked him, saying,
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.
12:20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left 
no seed.
12:21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the 
third likewise.
12:22 And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.
12:23 In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she 
be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
12:24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye 
know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
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.
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?
12:27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do 
greatly err.