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 husbandmen, and went abroad.

2 And in the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.

3 But they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.

4 And again he sent unto them another servant; and they cut the account short with him, by stoning him, and sent him away shamefully treated.

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

6 Now he had yet one son, his beloved, and he sent him unto them last, saying, They will reverence my son.

7 But these husbandmen said to each other, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be our own.

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