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Mark 12 - Read-Along · The Five Minute Bible Podcast

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Mark Chapter 12. And he began to speak to them in
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parables. A man planted a vineyard and put
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a wall around it and dug a VAT under the winepress and built a
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tower and rented it out to vine growers and went on a journey.
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At the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine growers in
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order to receive some of the produce of the vineyard from the
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vine growers. They took him and beat him and
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sent him away empty handed. Again he sent them another
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slave, and they wounded him in the head and treated him
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shamefully, and he sent another, and that one they killed.
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And so with many others, beating some and killing others, he had
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one more to send, a beloved son. He sent him last of all to them,
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saying, they will respect my son.
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But those vine growers said to one another, This is the air,
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Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.
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They took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.
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What will the owner of the vineyard do?
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He will come and destroy the vine growers and will give the
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vineyard to others. Have you not even read this
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scripture? The stone which the builders
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rejected, this became the chief cornerstone.
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This came about from the Lord, and it is marvellous in our
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eyes. And they were seeking to seize
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Him, and yet they feared the people, for they understood that
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He spoke the parable against them.
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And so they left Him and went away.
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Then they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Him
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in order to trap Him in a statement.
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They came and said to him, Teacher, we know that you are
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truthful, and defer to no one, for you are not partial to any,
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but teach the way of God in truth.
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Is it lawful to pay a poll tax to Caesar or not?
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Shall we pay or shall we not pay?
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But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, Why are you
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testing me? Bring me a denarius to look at.
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They brought one. And he said to them, Whose
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likeness and inscription is this?
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And they said to him Caesar's, And Jesus said to them, Render
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to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things
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that are gods. And they were amazed at him.
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Some Sadducees who say that there is no resurrection came to
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Jesus and began questioning him, saying, Teacher Moses wrote for
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us that if a man's brother dies and leaves behind a wife and
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leaves no child, his brother should marry the wife and raise
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up children to his brother. There were seven brothers, and
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the first took a wife and died leaving no children.
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The second one married her and died leaving behind no children,
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and the third likewise, and so all 7 left no children.
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Last of all, the woman died also in the resurrection.
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When they rise again, which one's wife will she be?
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For all seven had married her. Jesus said to them.
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Is this not the reason? You're mistaken that you do not
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understand the Scriptures or the power of God.
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For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are
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given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
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But regarding the fact that the dead rise again, have you not
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read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning
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Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, I am the God of Abraham,
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and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
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He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
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You are greatly mistaken. One of the scribes came and
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heard them arguing, and recognizing that he had answered
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them well, asked him, What commandment is the foremost of
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all? Jesus answered, The foremost is
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here, O Israel, the Lord our God is 1 Lord, and you shall love
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the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
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and with all your mind, with all your strength.
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The second is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
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There is no other commandment greater than these.
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The scribe said to him, Right teacher, you have truly stated
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that he is 1 and there is no one else besides him.
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And to love him with all the heart and with all the
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understanding, with all the strength, and to love one's
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neighbor as himself, is much more than all burnt offerings
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and sacrifice. When Jesus saw that he had
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answered intelligently, he said to him, You are not far from the
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Kingdom of God. After that no one would venture
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to ask him any more questions. And Jesus began to say, as he
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taught in the temple, how is it that the scribes say that the
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Christ is the Son of David? David himself said in the Holy
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Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand until
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I put your enemies beneath your feet.
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David himself calls him Lord, so in what sense is he his son?
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And the large crowd enjoyed listening to him in his
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teaching. He was saying, Beware of the
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scribes who like to walk around in long robes and like
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respectful greetings in the marketplaces and chief seats, in
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the synagogues and places of honor at banquets, who devour
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widows houses, and for appearances sake offer long
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prayers. These will receive greater
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condemnation. And he sat down opposite the
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treasury and began observing how the people were putting money
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into the treasury, and many rich people were putting in large
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sums. A poor widow came and put in two
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small copper coins which amount to a cent.
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Calling his disciples to him, he said to them, Truly, I say to
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you, This poor widow put in more than all the contributors to the
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Treasury, for they all put in out of their surplus, but she
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out of her poverty, put in all she owned, all she had to live
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on.