Mark 12:1–12

¹And he began to say to them in parables, A man planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country. ²And he sent a bondman to the husbandmen at the season, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard. ³But they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty. ⁴And again he sent to them another bondman; and at him they threw stones, and struck him on the head, and sent him away with insult. ⁵And again he sent another, and him they killed; and many others, beating some and killing some. ⁶Having yet therefore one beloved son, he sent also him to them the last, saying, They will have respect for my son. ⁷But those husbandmen said to one another, This is the heir: come, let us kill him and the inheritance will be ours. ⁸And they took him and killed him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard. ⁹What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. ¹⁰Have ye not even read this scripture, The stone which they that builded rejected, this has become the corner-stone: ¹¹this is of the Lord, and it is wonderful in our eyes? ¹²And they sought to lay hold of him, and they feared the crowd; for they knew that he had spoken the parable of them. And they left him and went away.