Mark 12:1-5 ▼

1 Then he began to speak to them in parables: |A man planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.

2 At harvest time he sent a slave to the tenants to collect from them his portion of the crop.

3 But those tenants seized his slave, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

4 So he sent another slave to them again. This one they struck on the head and treated outrageously.

5 He sent another, and that one they killed. This happened to many others, some of whom were beaten, others killed.