Daily Dose of Hope
May 1, 2025
Day 4 of Week 5
Scripture – Mark 12:1-17
Prayer: Dear Lord, I feel the need to just start with silence this morning. Help us sit and reflect on you and your presence...Jesus, we need you. We go through our days distracted and in a hurry, sometimes even forgetting to pray or acknowledge you. Help us to be aware of your presence, knowing that you walk with us every step of the way, guiding us and leading us in all our words, actions, and decisions. This is your day, Lord. Amen.
Welcome back to the Daily Dose of Hope, a Deep Dive into the Gospels and Acts. Today, we start Mark 12. There is a lot of substance in this chapter so we will take three days to walk through it.
Let’s start by talking about the parable of the tenants. This is a hard parable with violence involved in every aspect of it. A landowner, presumably a man of means, builds a vineyard and gets it set up with all the right equipment. He has tenants plant the vines and run the farm for him, while he lives in another place. When the harvest comes, the absent landowner sends a slave to collect his portion of the harvest or profits. The slave is beaten up pretty badly by the tenant farmers and limps away.
You would think the landowner might do something different next time but he doesn’t. He sends another slave. Actually, he sends a lot of different slaves to collect on his behalf. Some are badly beaten while others are actually killed. We get the impression this happens over many growing seasons.
The landowner decides he has one option left, his beloved son. He feels assured that the tenants won’t hurt him. Did the son feel the same way? Not sure. But things don’t go so well. The tenants know this is the heir and they kill him too, throwing his body out to the wild animals.
The question that Jesus asks is what will the landowner do? The answer is that he will come there himself, kill the tenants, and give the land to others (or possibly get new tenants.) What in the world is meant by all of this? There are several possible things to thi
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