Mark 12:1–12 (LEB)
1And he began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard, and put a fence around it, and dug a trough for the winepress, and built a watchtower, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey.
2And he sent a slave to the tenant farmers at the proper time, so that he could collect some of the fruit of the vineyard from the tenant farmers.
3And they seized him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
4And again he sent to them another slave, and that one they struck on the head and dishonored.
5And he sent another, and that one they killed. And he sent many others, some of whom they beat and some of whom they killed.
6He had one more, a beloved son. Last of all he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
7But those tenant farmers said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and the inheritance will be ours!’
8And they seized and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.
9What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenant farmers and give the vineyard to others.
10Have you not read this scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected, this has become the cornerstone.
11This came about from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”
12And they were seeking to arrest him, and they were afraid of the crowd, because they knew that he had told the parable with reference to them. And they left him and went away.
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