Mark 12:1-12
Read Mark 12 in full →Parable of the Vine-Growers
12aAnd He began to speak to them in parables: “bA man cplanted a vineyard and put a 1wall around it, and dug a vat under the wine press and built a tower, and rented it out to 2vine-growers and went on a journey. 2“And at the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, in order to receive some of the fruit 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, 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“And they took him, and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard. 9“What will the 1owner 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: ‘aThe stone which the builders rejected,This has become the chief corner stone;
11aThis came about from the 1Lord,And it is marvelous in our eyes’?”