Mark 12:1-9 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.