Mark 12:1-9 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⁽ⁱ⁾ 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. ² »During the season he sent a servant to the field workers that he might receive the fruits of the vineyard. ³ »They beat him and sent him away empty. ⁴ »Again he sent another servant and they treated him shamefully and wounded him in the head. ⁵ »He sent another and they killed him. He sent many others and some were beaten and some were killed. ⁶ »Last of all he sent his son saying: ‘They will respect my son.’ ⁷ »But those field workers said among themselves: This is the heir let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours. ⁸ »They captured him and killed him. Then they cast his body out of the vineyard. ⁹ »What will the lord of the vineyard do? He will destroy the field workers and give the vineyard to others.