10 Have you not read this scripture:

‘The stone which the builders rejected,
    this has become the cornerstone.[a]
11 This came about from the Lord,
    and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”[b]

12 And they were seeking to arrest him, and they were afraid of the crowd, because they knew that he had told the parable with reference to them. And they left him and[c] went away.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 12:10 Literally “the head of the corner”
  2. Mark 12:11 A quotation from Ps 118:22–23
  3. Mark 12:12 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“left”) has been translated as a finite verb

10 Haven’t you read this passage of Scripture:

“‘The stone the builders rejected
    has become the cornerstone;(A)
11 the Lord has done this,
    and it is marvelous in our eyes’[a]?”(B)

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. But they were afraid of the crowd;(C) so they left him and went away.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 12:11 Psalm 118:22,23