Mark 12:11 (DBY)

Passage

this is of [the] Lord, and it is wonderful in our eyes?

Nearby Context

Mark 12:9 What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.

Mark 12:10 Have ye not even read this scripture, The stone which they that builded rejected, this has become the corner-stone:

Mark 12:11 this is of [the] Lord, and it is wonderful in our eyes?

Mark 12:12 And they sought to lay hold of him, and they feared the crowd; for they knew that he had spoken the parable of them. And they left him and went away.

Mark 12:13 And they send to him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might catch him in speaking.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "lord", "wonderful", and "eyes". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "lord" and "wonderful", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 10's "Have ye not even read this scripture..." into verse 12's "And they sought to lay hold of...", so "lord" and "wonderful" belong inside that flow. In Mark context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "lord" and "wonderful" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.