isv@Mark:12:1 @ Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables.“A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the wine press, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went abroad.
isv@Mark:12:2 @ At the right time he sent a servant to the farmers to collect from them a share of the produce from the vineyard.
isv@Mark:12:3 @ But the farmersgrabbed the servant,beat him, and sent him back empty-handed.
isv@Mark:12:4 @ Again, the mansent another servant to them. They beat the servantover the head and treated him shamefully.
isv@Mark:12:5 @ Then the mansent another, and that one they killed. So it was with many other servants.Some of these they beat, and others they killed.
isv@Mark:12:6 @ Hestill had one more person to send,a son whom he loved. Finally, he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
isv@Mark:12:7 @ But those farmers said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come on, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’
isv@Mark:12:8 @ So they grabbed him, killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.
isv@Mark:12:9 @ “Now what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers and give the vineyard to others.
isv@Mark:12:10 @ Haven't you ever read this Scripture:‘The stone that the builders rejectedhas become the cornerstone.
isv@Mark:12:11 @ This was the Lord's doing,and it is amazing in our eyes’?”
isv@Mark:12:12 @ They were trying to arrest him but were afraid of the crowd. Realizing that he had spoken this parable against them, they left him alone and went away.