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Mark 12:2
At harvest time, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jesus addresses the temple authorities while narrating a parable about a vineyard owner who has leased his property to agricultural workers and departed. The words — ἀπέστειλεν (apesteilen) means he sent, and καιρῷ (kairō) denotes the appointed or harvest season when the action occurs. The thread — The vineyard lease is established in Mark 12:1, and the pattern of God dispatching messengers to His people appears in Judges 6:8 and 2 Kings 17:13. Why it lands — The text demands recognition that the owner’s timing is deliberate and his demand for the fruit is legitimate, requiring a clear response to his agent.
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The Greek words
King James Version
And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
Cross-references
- John 15:1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
- Judges 6:8 He sent them a prophet, who told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- 2 Kings 17:13 Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”
- 2 Chronicles 36:15 Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.
- Ezra 9:11 that You gave through Your servants the prophets, saying: ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the impurity of its peoples and the abominations with which they have filled it from end to end.
- Psalms 1:3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.
- Jeremiah 25:4 And the LORD has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again, but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear.
- Jeremiah 35:15 Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.
- Jeremiah 44:4 Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’
- Micah 7:1 Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.