Mark 12:7
But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.
Cross-references
In Mark 12:12, the religious leaders perceive the parable is against them, mirroring the tenants' plot.
Genesis 37:20 has Joseph's brothers plotting to kill the favored son, a clear type of the tenants' conspiracy.
Psalm 2:2 describes rulers taking counsel against the Lord's Anointed, which the tenants' plot fulfills.
Isaiah 49:7 speaks of the Servant deeply despised and abhorred, prefiguring the rejection of the son.
In Isaiah 53:8, the suffering servant is cut off — the death the parable foreshadows as the heir's fate.
In John 11:47-50, the council plots to kill Jesus — the very conspiracy the parable allegorizes with the tenants.
In Acts 2:23, Peter declares they put Jesus to death — the parable's prediction of killing the heir is fulfilled.
In Acts 7:52, Stephen accuses them of murdering the Righteous One — the parable's tenant plot realized.
In Acts 13:27, Paul says they condemned Jesus — echoing the tenants' decision to kill the heir.
In Acts 13:28, they ask Pilate for Jesus' execution — the parable's murder plot carried out historically.
In Genesis 37:20, Joseph's brothers plot to kill him — a typological pattern of the rejected heir that Jesus fulfills.
In Matthew 21:38, the tenants say the same words about killing the heir, directly paralleling this verse.