READ Mark 12 COMMENTARY: : 11      This was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes? (2298 “marvelous” [thaumastos] means wonderful, worthy of pious admiration, excellent, causing amazement joined with terror, surprising, extraordinary, or remarkable.) DEVOTION:  God can take something that no one wants and make it an important part of the building. The religious leaders didn’t want Jesus around they thought they were doing the LORD’S work well without HIM. Jesus had just told a parable informing those who understood that the current religious leaders were not honoring God but trying to build their own kingdom without God. They were using religion to build their kingdom. They were using words that were found in the Bible but they were using them for their own glory. Along comes Jesus who is the Messiah and they want to kill HIM…