MARK 12:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.”
What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others — the owner's response is the parable's judgment oracle: he will come himself (the personal return that the servants' missions anticipated), destroy the tenants (the judgment on Jerusalem that the 70 CE destruction fulfilled), and give the vineyard to others (the extension of the kingdom community to the Gentile mission). The judgment is precise and the transfer is complete.
Church Fathers on Mark 12:9
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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