Mark 12:1-12 (Gospel)
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- Then He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a place for the wine vat and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country.
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- Now at vintage-time he sent a servant to the vinedressers, that he might receive some of the fruit of the vineyard from the vinedressers.
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- And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
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- Again he sent them another servant, and at him they threw stones, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.
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- And again he sent another, and him they killed; and many others, beating some and killing some.
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- Therefore still having one son, his beloved, he also sent him to them last, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
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- But those vinedressers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’
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- So they took him and killed him and cast him out of the vineyard.
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- Therefore what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vinedressers, and give the vineyard to others.
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- Have you not even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone.
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- This was the LORD’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”
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- And they sought to lay hands on Him, but feared the multitude, for they knew He had spoken the parable against them. So they left Him and went away.