The Meaning of Mark 12:8 Explained

Mark 12:8

KJV: And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.

YLT: and having taken him, they did kill, and cast him forth without the vineyard.

Darby: And they took him and killed him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard.

ASV: And they took him, and killed him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And  they took  him,  and killed  [him], and  cast  [him] out of  the vineyard. 

What does Mark 12:8 Mean?

Context Summary

Mark 12:1-27 - Jesus Silences His Enemies
Our Lord reviews the history of the theocracy. He recounts the long roll of God's servants who had been persecuted and misused from the first to the last, including Himself. In doing so, He openly implied that He was the Son of God and made the Pharisees realize how clearly He foresaw the fate which they were preparing for Him. They were accustomed to apply Psalms 118:22 to the Messiah, and recognized at once what Jesus meant, when He claimed it as an emblem of His own rejection.
How admirably our Lord defined the relations of His Kingdom to the civil power! If we accept Caesar's protection and ordered government we are bound to maintain it by money payment and such other service as conscience permits. This indeed is part of our duty to God; and with equal care we must give Him the dues of the spiritual world.
Jesus silenced the Sadducees by a quotation from the Pentateuch, whose authority they admitted. God could not be the God of persons not in existence. Therefore since He used the present tense of His relationship with the patriarchs in speaking to Moses three hundred years after their death, they must have been still in existence. [source]

Chapter Summary: Mark 12

1  Jesus tells the parable of the tenants
13  He avoids the snare of the Pharisees and Herodians about paying tribute to Caesar;
18  convicts the Sadducees, who denied the resurrection;
28  resolves the scribe, who questioned of the first commandment;
35  refutes the opinion that the scribes held of the Christ;
38  bidding the people to beware of their ambition and hypocrisy;
41  and commends the poor widow for her two mites, above all

Greek Commentary for Mark 12:8

Killed him and cast him forth [απεκτειναν αυτον και εχεβαλον αυτον]
Matthew and Luke reverse the order, cast forth and killed. [source]

What do the individual words in Mark 12:8 mean?

And having taken they killed him cast forth him outside the vineyard
καὶ λαβόντες ἀπέκτειναν αὐτόν ἐξέβαλον αὐτὸν ἔξω τοῦ ἀμπελῶνος

λαβόντες  having  taken 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Participle Active, Nominative Masculine Plural
Root: λαμβάνω  
Sense: to take.
ἀπέκτειναν  they  killed 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Active, 3rd Person Plural
Root: ἀποκτείνω 
Sense: to kill in any way whatever.
ἐξέβαλον  cast  forth 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Active, 3rd Person Plural
Root: ἐκβάλλω  
Sense: to cast out, drive out, to send out.
ἔξω  outside 
Parse: Preposition
Root: ἔξω  
Sense: without, out of doors.
ἀμπελῶνος  vineyard 
Parse: Noun, Genitive Masculine Singular
Root: ἀμπελών  
Sense: a vineyard.

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