MARK 12:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“This was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?”
The Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes — Psalm 118:23 is the continuation: the stone's transformation from rejected to cornerstone is the Lord's doing, not human achievement. Marvelous in our eyes acknowledges that the reversal exceeds what human calculation could have predicted or produced. The resurrection of the killed son/stone is the marvelous divine action that transforms rejection into cornerstone.
Church Fathers on Mark 12:11
After the Lord had closed the mouths of His tempters by a wise question, He next shews their wickedness in a parable.
God the Father is called a man by a human conception. The vineyard is the house of Israel; the hedge is the guardianship of Angels; the winefat is the law, the tower is the temple, and the husbandmen, the priests.
Or else, the hedge is the wall of the city, the winefat is the altar, or those winefats, by which three psalms receive their name.
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