Mark 12: 1
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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. |
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When the time came, he sent a servant to the
tenants, to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. |
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And they took him and beat him, and sent him
away empty-handed. |
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Again he sent to them another servant, and
they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully. |
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And he sent another, and him they killed;
and so with many others, some they beat and some they killed. |
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He had still one other, a beloved son;
finally he sent him to them, saying, `They will respect my son.'
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But those tenants said to one another, `This
is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'
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And they took him and killed him, and cast
him out of the vineyard. |
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What will the owner of the vineyard do? He
will come and destroy the tenants, and give the vineyard to others.
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Have you not read this scripture: `The very
stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner;
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this was the Lord's doing, and it is
marvelous in our eyes'?" |
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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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