mnt - Mark:12:1-12

mnt@Mark:12:1 @ Presently Jesus began to speak to them in parables. "There was once a man," he said, "who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a pit for the wine-press, built a tower, rented it to tenants, and went abroad.

mnt@Mark:12:2 @ At vintage-time he sent a slave to the vine-dressers to collect some of the proceeds of the vineyard;

mnt@Mark:12:3 @ but they seized him, and flogged him, and sent him away empty-handed.

mnt@Mark:12:4 @ Then he sent another slave to them; and this man they knocked over the head and handled shamefully.

mnt@Mark:12:5 @ And he sent another; and him they killed; and many others; beating some, and killing some.

mnt@Mark:12:6 @ He had still one, a Son beloved, He sent him last to them, saying, "They will reverence my Son.

mnt@Mark:12:7 @ "But those tenants said to themselves. Here is the heir! Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.

mnt@Mark:12:8 @ "So they took him and killed him, and threw his body out of the vineyard.

mnt@Mark:12:9 @ What will the owner of the Vineyard do?" "He will come and put the tenants to death," they said, "and will give the vineyard to others."

mnt@Mark:12:10 @ "Have you not read this Scripture?" (he continued) "The very stone which the builders rejected Has now become the corner-stone;

mnt@Mark:12:11 @ This is the Lords doing; It is marvelous in our eyes."

mnt@Mark:12:12 @ And they kept seeking to lay hold on him, but were afraid of the crowd, for they knew well that he had spoken this parable about them; so they left him and went away.