Mark 12:1-12 Then he began to speak to them in figures. "A man once planted a vineyard and fenced it in and hewed out a wine-vat and built a watch tower, and he leased it to tenants and left the neighborhood.

Goodspeed⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Then he began to speak to them in figures. "A man once planted a vineyard and fenced it in and hewed out a wine-vat and built a watch tower, and he leased it to tenants and left the neighborhood. ² At the proper time he sent a slave to the tenants to get from them a share of the vintage. ³ And they took him and beat him and sent him back empty-handed. ⁴ And again he sent another slave to them. And they beat him over the head and treated him shamefully. ⁵ And he sent another; and him they killed; and so with many others, some they beat and some they killed. ⁶ He still had one left to send, a dearly loved son. He sent him to them last of all, thinking, 'They will respect my son.' ⁷ But the tenants said to one another, 'This is his heir! Come on, let us kill him, and the property will belong to us!' ⁸ So they took him and killed him, and threw his body outside of the vineyard. ⁹ What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come back and put the tenants to death and give the vineyard to others. ¹⁰ Did you never read this passage of Scripture: " 'That stone which the builders rejected Has become the cornerstone; ¹¹ This came from the Lord And seems marvelous to us'?" ¹² And they tried to have him arrested, but they were afraid of the people, for they knew that the illustration was aimed at them. And they left him and went away.