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Mark 12:10 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 10. 10And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
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Quick Meaning
This verse reuses Psalm 118's rejected stone to interpret the tenants' rejection and God's reversal.
Read It With
- Mark 12:1-12
Read Mark 12:10 with 12:1-12. This verse reuses Psalm 118's rejected stone to interpret the tenants' rejection and God's reversal. The complete unit's controlling movement is: Jesus tells leaders of tenants who beat servants and kill a beloved son, leading to judgment and transfer; Psalm 118's rejected stone interprets the conflict, and leaders recognize the parable's charge.
Why This Verse Appears Here
This verse reuses Psalm 118's rejected stone to interpret the tenants' rejection and God's reversal. This specific contribution advances Mark 12:1-12 toward its narrated or taught result.
Follow the Context
- Jesus tells leaders of tenants who beat servants and kill a beloved son
- leading to judgment and transfer
- Psalm 118's rejected stone interprets the conflict
- leaders recognize the parable's charge.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of…”
In plain language: reuses Psalm 118's rejected stone to interpret the tenants' rejection and God's reversal
Jesus tells leaders of tenants who beat servants and kill a beloved son, leading to judgment and transfer; Psalm 118's rejected stone interprets the conflict, and leaders recognize the parable's charge. Within that movement, this wording reuses Psalm 118's rejected stone to interpret the tenants' rejection and God's reversal.
Why it matters: This wording carries a material narrative, lexical, textual, historical, theological, ethical, or misuse boundary.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
Judgment on tenants does not authorize violence against opponents. Read Mark 12:10 with Mark 12:1-12. In context, the verse reuses Psalm 118's rejected stone to interpret the tenants' rejection and God's reversal.
What Remains True
The tenants' violence against servants and beloved son brings judgment on accountable leaders and divine reversal of the rejected stone. At Mark 12:10, reuses Psalm 118's rejected stone to interpret the tenants' rejection and God's reversal.
How It Can Shape Life
- At Mark 12:10, hold stewards accountable for violence and possession without transferring guilt to an entire people or claiming another community's inheritance. This verse contributes to that response because it reuses Psalm 118's rejected stone to interpret the tenants' rejection and God's reversal.
Teach It Back
Explain Mark 12:10's specific contribution to Mark 12:1-12: reuses Psalm 118's rejected stone to interpret the tenants' rejection and God's reversal. Include the surrounding movement, one uncertainty or ethical boundary, and what the verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
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Read Mark 12:1-12 — The Vineyard Tenants Reject Servants and SonSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
The preferred reading follows Mark's immediate narrative and whole-book movement while keeping the material alternative visible: Isaiah 5 and Psalm 118 shape the parable. The tenants address accountable leaders, not the Jewish people as a whole; 'give the vineyard unto others' must not become replacement theology.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and coverage.
Exact location: Mark 12:1-12, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording, sentence relations, and material variants checked independently of the KJV.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT official repository, data/sblgnt/text/Mark.txt, 12:1-12
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NET Bible — Mark with translators' and textual notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2005–2026 online edition
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, older-English clarification, variants, background, and alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible Mark PDF, printed pp. 1868–1901, 12:1-12 and attached translator/textual notes
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