That means you have to trick, bribe, cajole, or lord over the people in order to maintain your influence.

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.

Jesus' principle here shows us that before God, the spirit of giving determines the value of the gift more than the amount.

17 нояб. 2019 г. · The main point of Mark 12:1-12 is that God's Son will be rejected only to be vindicated, and that those who rejected him will be judged.

12 Then the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders looked for a way to arrest him because they knew he had spoken the parable against them.

26 февр. 2012 г. · The text asserts that God has rejected the Jewish leadership and replaced their role in the Realm with Jesus and his followers.

(i) It tells us of the generosity of God. The vineyard was equipped with everything that was necessary to make the work of the cultivators easy and profitable. Smith's Bible Commentary · Barclay's Daily Study Bible

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