Mark 12:1-8 ▼

1 And He began to speak to them in parables, "A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country.

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

3 And, taking him, they beat him , and sent him away empty.

4 And again he sent to them another servant; and him they wounded in the head, and dishonored.

5 And he sent another; and him they killed; and many others, beating some, and killing some.

6 He had yet one, a beloved son; he sent him to them last, saying, 'They will pay deference to my son.'

7 But those husbandmen said among themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'

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