Mark 12:1-9 ▼

1 And He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it, and dug a vat under the wine press and built a tower, and leased it to vine-growers and went on a journey.

2 And at the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, in order to receive his share of the produce of the vineyard from the vine-growers.

3 And they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

4 And again he sent them another slave, and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully.

5 And he sent another, and that one they killed; and so with many others, beating some and killing others.

6 He had one more man to send, a beloved son; he sent him to them last of all, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

7 But those vine-growers said to one another, ‘This is the heir; come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’

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

9 What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and put the vine-growers to death, and give the vineyard to others.