Mark 12:1-12

¹Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a wine vat, and built a watchtower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.

²At harvest time, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard.

³But they seized the servant, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

⁴Then he sent them another servant, and they struck him over the head and treated him shamefully.

⁵He sent still another, and this one they killed. He sent many others; some they beat and others they killed.

⁶Finally, having one beloved son, he sent him to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.

⁷But the tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

⁸So they seized the son, killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.

⁹What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants, and will give the vineyard to others.

¹⁰Have you never read this Scripture:

‘The stone the builders rejected

has become the cornerstone.

¹¹This is from the Lord,

and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”

¹²At this, the leaders sought to arrest Jesus, for they knew that He had spoken this parable against them. But fearing the crowd, they left Him and went away.

— Mark 12:1-12

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Cross References for Mark 12:1-12

• Psalm 118:22-23
• 1 Peter 2:7-8
• Isaiah 5:1-4
• Matthew 21:42
• Luke 20:17-18
• Isaiah 28:16
• Acts 4:11-12
• Romans 9:33
• Ephesians 2:20-22
• Mark 13:34

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