Mark 12:1-5 ▼

1 Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables. |A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the wine press, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went abroad.

2 At the right time, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect from them a share of the produce from the vineyard.

3 But the farmers grabbed the servant, beat him, and sent him back empty-handed.

4 Again, the man sent another servant to them. They beat the servant over the head and treated him shamefully.

5 Then the man sent another, and that one they killed. So it was with many other servants. Some of these they beat, and others they killed.