Mark 12:9 (LSB)

Passage

What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vine-growers, and will give the vineyard to others.

Nearby Context

Mark 12:7 But those vine-growers 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 threw him out of the vineyard.

Mark 12:9 What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vine-growers, and will give the vineyard to others.

Mark 12:10 Have you not even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected, This has become the chief corner stone;

Mark 12:11 This came about from the Lord, And it is marvelous in our eyes’?”

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "owner", "vineyard", "come", "destroy", "vine-growers", "give", and "others". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "owner" and "vineyard", 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 you not even read this Scripture...", so "owner" and "vineyard" 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 "owner" and "vineyard" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.