Mark 12:1-12 And he said to them in parables, A man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a wine-fat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.

Wesley⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And he said to them in parables, A man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a wine-fat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. ² And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, to receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard. ³ But they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty. ⁴ And again he sent to them another servant: and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled. ⁵ And again he sent another, and him they killed; and many others, beating some and killing some. ⁶ Having yet therefore one son his well-beloved, he sent him also last to them, saying, They will reverence my son. ⁷ But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours. ⁸ And they took him and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. ⁹ What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. ¹⁰ And have ye not read this scripture? The stone which the builders rejected, is become the head of the corner? ¹¹ This was the Lord's doing, and it was marvellous in our eyes. ¹² And they sought to seize him, but feared the multitude; for they knew he had spoken the parable against them; and leaving him, they went away.