Mark 12

This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Find sources: "Mark 12" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Mark 12
← chapter 11 chapter 13 →
The Latin text of Mark 11:10–14:32 in Codex Gigas (13th century)
Book	Gospel of Mark
Category	Gospel
Christian Bible part	New Testament
Order in the Christian part	2

Mark 12 is the twelfth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It continues Jesus' teaching in the Temple in Jerusalem, and contains the parable of the Wicked Husbandmen, Jesus' argument with the Pharisees and Herodians over paying taxes to Caesar, and the debate with the Sadducees about the nature of people who will be resurrected at the end of time. It also contains Jesus' greatest commandment, his discussion of the messiah's relationship to King David, condemnation of the teachers of the law, and his praise of a poor widow's offering.

In the context of Mark's chronology, these events, continuing from the challenge to Jesus' authority in Mark 11:27-33,^[1] take place during his third visit to the temple, traditionally identified with Holy Tuesday.^[2]