Mark 12:1-12
Parable of the Vine-growers
1 (A)And He began to speak to them in parables: “(B)A man (C)planted a vineyard and put a (a)wall around it, and dug a vat under the wine press and built a tower, and rented it out to (b)vine-growers and went on a journey.
2 At the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, in order to receive some of the produce of the vineyard from the vine-growers.
3 They took him, and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
4 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 to send, a beloved son; he sent him last of all to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
7 But those vine-growers said to one another, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’
8 They took him, and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.
9 What will the (c)owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vine-growers, and will give the vineyard to others.
10 Have you not even read this Scripture:
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Footnotes:
a.
Mark 12:1: ['Or ', fence]
b.
Mark 12:1: ['Or ', tenant farmers, ', also vv 2, 7, 9']
c.
Mark 12:9: ['Lit ', lord]
d.
Mark 12:12: ['Lit ', crowd]
Cross references:
F.
Mark 12:12:
Mark 11:18