Mark 12:7
Good News Translation
But those tenants said to one another, 'This is the owner's son. Come on, let's kill him, and his property will be ours!'

New Revised Standard Version
But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

Contemporary English Version
But they said to themselves, "Someday he will own this vineyard. Let's kill him! That way we can have it all for ourselves."

New American Bible
But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the husbandmen said one to another: This is the heir. Come let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But the husbandmen said one to another: This is the heir. Come let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours.

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Mark 12:12 And they sought to lay hands on him: but they feared the people. For they knew that he spoke this parable to them. And leaving him, they went their way.

Genesis 3:15 I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.

Genesis 37:20 Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit: and we will say: Some evil beast hath devoured him: and then it shall appear what his dreams avail him:

Psalm 2:2,3 The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together, against the Lord, and against his Christ. . . .

Psalm 22:12-15 Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls have besieged me. . . .

Isaiah 49:7 Thus saith the Lord the redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to the soul that is despised, to the nation that is abhorred, to the servant of rulers: Kings shall see, and princes shall rise up, and adore for the Lord's sake, because he is faithful, and for the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee.

Isaiah 53:7,8 He was offered because it was his own will, and he opened not his mouth: he shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be dumb as a lamb before his shearer, and he shall not open his mouth. . . .

Matthew 2:3-13,16 And king Herod hearing this, was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. . . .

John 11:47-50 The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council and said: What do we, for this man doth many miracles? . . .

Acts 2:23 This same being delivered up, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you by the hands of wicked men have crucified and slain.

Acts 5:28 Saying: Commanding, we commanded you that you should not teach in this name. And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine: and you have a mind to bring the blood of this man upon us.

Acts 7:52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One: of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers.

Acts 13:27,28 For they that inhabited Jerusalem and the rulers thereof, not knowing him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath, judging him, have fulfilled them. . . .

Context
The Parable of the Wicked Tenants
6Therefore, having yet one son, most dear to him, he also sent him unto them last of all, saying: They will reverence my son. 7But the husbandmen said one to another: This is the heir. Come let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours. 8And laying hold on him, they killed him and cast him out of the vineyard.…
Cross References
Matthew 21:34
And when the time of the fruits drew nigh, he sent his servants to the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits thereof.

Mark 12:6
Therefore, having yet one son, most dear to him, he also sent him unto them last of all, saying: They will reverence my son.

Mark 12:8
And laying hold on him, they killed him and cast him out of the vineyard.

Hebrews 1:2
In these days, hath spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world.

Mark 12:6
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