Mark 12:9 (DBY)

Passage

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

Nearby Context

Mark 12:7 But those husbandmen said to one another, This is the heir: come, let us kill him and the inheritance will be ours.

Mark 12:8 And they took him and killed him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard.

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?

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "therefore", "shall", "lord", "vineyard", "come", "destroy", "husbandmen", and "give". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "therefore" and "shall", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 8's "And they took him and killed him..." into verse 10's "Have ye not even read this scripture...", so "therefore" and "shall" 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 "therefore" and "shall" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.