Mar 12:1-12 | NASB1995 | STEP | And He began to speak to them in parables : “ A man planted a vineyard and put a wall around it, and dug a vat under the wine press and built a tower , and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey .

b Mark 12:1-12: Matt 21:33-46; Luke 20:9-19

Mark 12:1-12

1 ^aAnd He began to speak to them in parables: ^b“A man ^c planted a vineyard and put a ^{▼▼ Or fence} wall around it, and dug a vat under the wine press and built a tower, and rented it out to ^{▼▼ Or tenant farmers, also vv 2, 7, 9}vine-growers and went on a journey. 2 “At the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, in order to receive some of the produce of the vineyard from the vine-growers. 3 “They took him, and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 4 “Again he sent them another slave, and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully. 5 “And he sent another, and that one they killed; and so with many others, beating some and killing others. 6 “He had one more to send, a beloved son; he sent him last of all to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 7 “But those vine-growers said to one another, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’ 8 “They took him, and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard. 9 “What will the ^{▼▼ Lit lord}owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vine-growers, and will give the vineyard to others. 10 “Have you not even read this Scripture: ‘ ^g The stone which the builders rejected,
This became the chief corner stone;
11 ^h This came about from the Lord,
And it is marvelous in our eyes’?”

12 ⁱAnd they were seeking to seize Him, and yet they feared the ^{▼▼ Lit crowd}people, for they understood that He spoke the parable against them. And so ^kthey left Him and went away.