Mark 12:1-8 ▼

1 And He began to speak unto them in parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and made a fence about it, and digged a place for the wine-fat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and travelled abroad.

2 And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that he might receive from them of the fruit of the vineyard:

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

4 And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they threw stones, and wounded him on the head, and sent him away shamefully used.

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

6 Having yet therefore one Son, his beloved, he sent him also at last unto them, saying, they will reverence my Son.

7 But the husbandmen said to one another, this is the heir, Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.

8 And they took him, and killed Him too, casting him out of the vineyard.