Mark 12:1-8 ▼

1 And he began to speak to them in parables: A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and digged a wine-press, and built a tower, and let it out to vine-dressers, and went into another country.

2 And at the proper time, he sent a servant to the vine-dressers, that he might receive from the vine-dressers of the fruit of the vineyard.

3 And they took him and scourged him, and sent him away without any thing.

4 And again he sent to them another servant; and at him they threw stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.

5 And again he sent another; and him they killed. And he sent many others, some of whom they scourged, and some they killed.

6 Therefore, having yet one son, his beloved, he sent him also to them last, saying, They will reverence my son.

7 But those vine-dressers said one to another, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.

8 And they took him, and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.