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He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country. See also: Isaiah 5:1-4Mark 13:34Song of Songs 8:11-12When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard. See also: John 15:1-8Luke 20:10Judges 6:8-10They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty. See also: Nehemiah 9:261 Thessalonians 2:152 Chronicles 36:16Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated. Again he sent another, and they killed him, and many others, beating some, and killing some. See also: Matthew 5:12Matthew 23:37Luke 6:22-23Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ See also: Matthew 3:17Hebrews 1:1-2John 1:34But those farmers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ See also: Psalms 22:12-15Matthew 2:16Genesis 3:15They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. See also: Matthew 21:33Luke 20:15Matthew 21:39What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. See also: Romans 10:20Matthew 21:43Luke 19:27Haven’t you even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner. See also: Psalms 118:22-231 Peter 2:7-8Luke 20:17-18This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes’?” See also: Psalms 118:23Habakkuk 1:5Acts 2:32-36They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him and went away. See also: Mark 11:18Mark 11:32John 7:30They sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words. See also: Mark 3:6Luke 20:20-26Luke 11:54When they had come, they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don’t defer to anyone; for you aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? See also: Galatians 2:11-142 Corinthians 5:112 Corinthians 2:2Shall we give, or shall we not give?” But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it.” See also: Revelation 2:23John 21:17Mark 10:2They brought it. He said to them, “Whose is this image and inscription?” They said to him, “Caesar’s.” See also: Revelation 3:122 Timothy 2:19Luke 20:24-26Jesus answered them, “Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” They marveled greatly at him. See also: Romans 13:71 Peter 2:172 Corinthians 5:14-15Some Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came to him. They asked him, saying, See also: Matthew 22:23-33Acts 4:1-2Luke 20:27-40“Teacher, Moses wrote to us, ‘If a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.’ See also: Deuteronomy 25:5-10Ruth 4:5Genesis 38:8There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring. See also: Luke 20:29-33Matthew 22:25-28The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise; and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died. In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife.” Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God? See also: 2 Timothy 3:15-17Matthew 22:29John 20:9For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. See also: Luke 20:35-36Matthew 22:301 John 3:2But about the dead, that they are raised, haven’t you read in the book of Moses about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? See also: Exodus 3:2-6Luke 20:37Genesis 17:7-8He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken.” See also: Romans 14:9Mark 12:24Romans 4:17One of the scribes came and heard them questioning together, and knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the greatest of all?” See also: Matthew 22:34-40Luke 10:25-28Luke 20:39Jesus answered, “The greatest is: ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. See also: Luke 10:27Deuteronomy 6:4Galatians 3:20You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. See also: Deuteronomy 6:5The second is like this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” See also: Romans 13:8-9Matthew 22:39Leviticus 19:18The scribe said to him, “Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he; See also: Deuteronomy 4:39Deuteronomy 4:35Isaiah 46:9and to love him with all the heart, with all the understanding, all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” See also: Hosea 6:6Micah 6:6-8Matthew 9:13When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from God’s Kingdom.” No one dared ask him any question after that. See also: Colossians 4:6Luke 20:40Matthew 22:46Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, “How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? See also: Luke 20:41-44Matthew 22:41-45Matthew 26:55For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.”’ See also: Psalms 110:1Matthew 22:43-45Hebrews 1:13Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?” The common people heard him gladly. See also: Romans 1:3-4Revelation 22:16Matthew 11:25In his teaching he said to them, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces, See also: Matthew 23:1-7Luke 20:45-47Luke 11:43and to get the best seats in the synagogues and the best places at feasts, See also: James 2:2-3those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.” See also: Luke 20:47Matthew 23:33Matthew 23:13Jesus sat down opposite the treasury and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much. See also: Luke 21:1-42 Kings 12:9John 8:20A poor widow came and she cast in two small brass coins, which equal a quadrans coin. He called his disciples to himself and said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury, See also: 2 Corinthians 8:22 Corinthians 9:6-8Acts 11:29for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on.” See also: 1 John 3:172 Corinthians 8:2-3Luke 21:2-4
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)18 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Mark 12:1
Ver. 1. Under these figurative modes of speech, or parables, Jesus Christ began to trace out for their reflection a true portraiture of their ingratitude, and of the divine vengeance. By this man we are to understand God the Father, whose vineyard was the house of Israel, which he guarded by angels; the place dug for the wine-vat is the law; the tower, the temple; and Moses, the prophets and the priests, whom the Jews afflicted and persecuted are the husbandmen or servants. S. Jerom. — This same parable was employed by Isaias, (v. 1.) where speaking of Christ, he says: My beloved had a vineyard, and he fenced it in. Tirinus. — He went into a far country, not by change of place, for he is every where, but by leaving the workmen the power of free-will, either to work or not to work; in the same manner as a man in a far country cannot oversee his husbandmen at home, but leaves them to themselves. Ven.
Bede. -- This parable is thus morally explained: Jesus Christ planted a Church with his own blood, surrounded it with evangelical doctrine, as with a hedge; dug a place for the wine-vat, by the abundance of spiritual graces which he has prepared for his Church; built a tower, by appointing his angels to guard each individual Christian, who are the husbandmen to whom he has let it out.
Nic. de Lyra.
↑ 1Mark 12:2
Ver. 2. The first servant whom the Almighty sent, was Moses; but they sent him away empty; for, says the Psalmist, they provoked him to anger in the camp.
Ps. cv. The second servant sent was David, whom they used reproachfully, saying: What have we to do with David? 3 Kings xii. 16. The third was the school of the prophets; and which of the prophets did they not kill? Mat. xxiii.
Ven. Bede.
↑ 2Mark 12:7
Ver. 7. From this it appears, that the chief priests and lawyers were not ignorant that Christ was the Messias promised in the law and the prophets, but their knowledge was afterwards blinded by their envy: for otherwise, had they known him to be true God, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory, says S. Paul. For a further explanation, see S. Mat. xxi. Ven. Bede.
↑ 7Mark 12:8
Ver. 8. They cast the heir, Jesus Christ, out of the vineyard, by leading him out of Jerusalem to be crucified. Theophy. — They had before cast him out by calling him a Samaritan and demoniac; (S. John, C. viii.) and again by refusing to receive him, and turning him over to the Gentiles. S. Jerom.
↑ 8Mark 12:9
Ver. 9. The vineyard is given to others; as it is said, they shall come from the east and the west, from the north and the south, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of God. S. Jerom.
↑ 9Mark 12:10
Ver. 10. By this question, Christ shows that they were about to fulfil this prophecy, by casting him off, planning his death, and delivering him up to the Gentiles, by which he became the corner-stone, joining the two people of the Jews and Gentiles together, and forming out of them the one city and one temple of the faithful. Ven. Bede. — The Church is the corner, joining together Jews and Gentiles; the head of it is Christ. By the Lord hath this been done in our days, and it is wonderful in our eyes, seeing the prodigies which God has performed through him whom men reject as an impostor. Theophy. and V.
↑ 10Mark 12:12
Ver. 12. The chief priests thus shew, that what our Saviour had just said was true, by thus seeking to lay their hands on him. Ven. Bede.
↑ 12Mark 12:14
Ver. 14. The disciples of the Pharisees said this in order to induce our Saviour to answer them, "that they were not to pay tribute to Cæsar, being the people of God; an answer they confidently anticipated, and which the Herodians hearing, might immediately apprehend him, and thus remove the odium from themselves to Herod. Ven. Bede.
↑ 14Mark 12:15
Ver. 15. Knowing their hypocrisy.[1] The Latin word commonly signifies, cunning, but by the Greek is here meant their dissimulation, or hypocrisy. Wi.
↑ 15Mark 12:17
Ver. 17. Although Christ clearly establishes here the strict obligation of paying to Cæsar what belongs to Cæsar, to the confusion of his very enemies, we shall still find them bringing forward against him the charge of disloyalty, as if he forbade tribute to be paid to Cæsar. Luke xxiii. 2. After the example of her divine Model, the Catholic Church has uniformly taught with S. Paul, the necessity of obeying the powers in being; and this not for fear of their wrath, but for conscience sake. Render to Cæsar the money on which his image is stamped, but render yourselves cheerfully to God; for the light of thy countenance, O Lord, is stamped upon us, (Ps. iv.) and not the image of Cæsar. S. Jerom. — With reason were they astonished at the wisdom of this answer, which eluded all their artifices, and taught them at the same time what they owed to their prince, and what they owed to God: and whoever hopes for the favour of heaven, must conscientiously observe this double duty to God and to the magistrate.
↑ 17Mark 12:26
Ver. 26. The doctrine of the resurrection from the dead is clearly given in the book of Moses, where mention is made of the burning bush, from the midst of which God appeared to Moses: have you not read, I say, what God there said to him? As God is the God of the living, you must be in an egregious error in imagining, that such as die in the eyes of the world not to return thither any more, die in the same manner in the eyes of God, to live no more. V.
↑ 26Mark 12:29
Ver. 29. Literally the Lord our God is the only Lord: and this is the sense of the text in Deuteronomy vi. 4. The word in the original text, rendered by the term Lord, is the grand name JEHOVA, which signifies properly God, considered as the supreme Being, or the author of all existence.
↑ 29Mark 12:33
Ver. 33. Venerable Bede gathers from this answer of the Scribes, that it had been long disputed among the Scribes and Pharisees, which was the greatest commandment in the law; some preferring the acts of faith and love, because many of the fathers, before the law was instituted, were pleasing to God on account of their faith and piety, and not on account of their sacrifices; yet none were agreeable to God who had not faith and charity. This Scribe seems to have been of the opinion of those who preferred the love of God. Ven. Bede. —
This excellence of charity teacheth us that faith only is not sufficient. B.
↑ 33Mark 12:34
Ver. 34. Being now refuted in their discourse, they no longer interrogate him, but deliver him up to the Roman power. Thus envy may be vanquished, but with great difficulty silenced. Ven. Bede.
↑ 34Mark 12:35
Ver. 35. According to S. Mat. it was principally to the Pharisees that Christ proposed this question. See Mat. 22, 41.
↑ 35Mark 12:37
Ver. 37. This interrogation of Jesus instructs us how to refute the adversaries of truth; for if any assert that Christ was but a simple and holy man, a mere descendant of the race of David, we will ask them, after the example of Jesus: If Christ be man only, and the Son of David, how does David, under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, call him Lord? The Jews were not blamed for calling him the Son of David, but for denying him to be the Son of God. Ven.
Bede.
↑ 37Mark 12:43
Ver. 43. God accepts alms, if they are corresponding to each one's abilities; and the more able a man is, the more must he bestow in charities. The widow's mite was very acceptable to God, and very meritorious to herself; because though small the offering considered in itself, it was great considering her extreme indigence.
↑ 43Mark 12:44
Ver. 44. But she, of her want,[2] or indigence, out of what she wanted to subsist by, as appeareth by the Greek. Wi.
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[1] V. 15. Versutiam. ten upokrisin.
[2] V. 44. De penuria sua, ek tes ustereseos. See the same Greek word, 1 Cor.
xvi. 17. 2 Cor. ix. 12, and C. xi. 9. &c.
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↑ 44License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses