Mark 12:9 (YLT)

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 and those husbandmen said among themselves--This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and ours shall be the inheritance;

Mark 12:8 and having taken him, they did kill, and cast <FI>him<Fi> forth without 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 And this Writing did ye not read: A stone that the builders rejected, it did become the head of a corner:

Mark 12:11 from the Lord was this, 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 having taken him they did kill..." into verse 10's "And this Writing did ye not read...", 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.