Mark 12:5

And again he sent another,.... That is, another servant, or set of men, it may be in the times of the Maccabees, who were used in a very inhuman manner; see Heb 11:37;

and him they killed; either…

See this parable explained in the notes at Mat 21:33-46. See this parable explained in the notes at Mat 21:33-46.

Christ had formerly in parables showed how he designed to set up the gospel church; now he begins in parables to show how he would lay aside the Jewish church, which it might have been grafted into…