nsb - Mark:12:1-12

nsb@Mark:12:1 @ He taught them with illustrations: »A man had a vineyard planted. He built a wall around it. He prepared a place for crushing out the wine and put up a tower. Then he rented it out to field workers, and went into another country.

nsb@Mark:12:2 @ »During the season he sent a servant to the field workers that he might receive the fruits of the vineyard.

nsb@Mark:12:3 @ »They beat him and sent him away empty.

nsb@Mark:12:4 @ »Again he sent another servant and they treated him shamefully and wounded him in the head.

nsb@Mark:12:5 @ »He sent another and they killed him. He sent many others and some were beaten and some were killed.

nsb@Mark:12:6 @ »Last of all he sent his son saying: They will respect my son.

nsb@Mark:12:7 @ »But those field workers said among themselves: This is the heir let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours.

nsb@Mark:12:8 @ »They captured him and killed him. Then they cast his body out of the vineyard.

nsb@Mark:12:9 @ »What will the lord of the vineyard do? He will destroy the field workers and give the vineyard to others.

nsb@Mark:12:10 @ »Have you not read this Scripture: The stone the builders rejected was made the chief corner stone. (Psalm strkjv@118:22, 23)

nsb@Mark:12:11 @ »This was from Jehovah and it is marvelous in our eyes?« (Psalm strkjv@118:23)

nsb@Mark:12:12 @ They tried to capture him but feared the crowd. They perceived that he spoke the illustration against them. So they left him and went away.