Mark 12:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.

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

9 What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.

10 And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:

11 This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?

12 And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.

13 And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.

Ver. 13. To catch him in his words] As hunters catch the beast in a toil, αγρευσωσι, as fowlers catch the bird in a snare, as St Matthew's word here signifies (παγιδευσωσι).

" Fistula dulce canit, voluerem dum decipit auceps. "

Mark 12:13

13 And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.