Mark 12:1-5 ▼

1 Jesus began to speak to them [the chief priests, scribes and elders who were questioning Him] in parables: “A man PLANTED A VINEYARD AND PUT A WALL AROUND IT, AND DUG A PIT FOR THE WINE PRESS AND BUILT A TOWER; and he rented it out to tenant farmers and left the country.

2 When the harvest season came he sent a servant to the tenants, in order to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.

3 They took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

4 Again he sent them another servant, and they [threw stones and] wounded him in the head, and treated him disgracefully.

5 And he sent another, and that one they killed; then many others—some they beat and some they killed.