Mark 12: 1 - 12
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| 1 | And he began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a pit for the wine press, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country. |
| 2 | When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. |
| 3 | And they took him and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed. |
| 4 | Again he sent to them another servant, and they wounded him in 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 had still one other, a beloved son; finally he sent him to them, saying, `They will respect my son.' |
| 7 | But those tenants said to one another, `This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' |
| 8 | And they took him and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. |
| 9 | What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants, and give the vineyard to others. |
| 10 | Have you not read this scripture: `The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner; |
| 11 | this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?" |
| 12 | And they tried to arrest him, but feared the multitude, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them; so they left him and went away. |
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