Mark 12:1-5 ▼

1 He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and left on a journey.

2 At the proper time he sent a servant to the tenants to obtain from them some of the produce of the vineyard.

3 But they seized him, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

4 Again he sent them another servant. And that one they beat over the head and treated shamefully.

5 He sent yet another whom they killed. So, too, many others; some they beat, others they killed.