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Mark 12 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
Parable of the Wicked Tenants
1 AND he began to speak to them in parables: A man planted a vineyard and made a hedge about it, and digged a trough, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen; and went forth into a strange country.
2 And he sent to the husbandmen in season a servant, to receive of the husbandmen, of the fruit of the vineyard.
3 Who apprehending him, beat him; and sent him away empty.
4 And again he sent to them another servant; and him they wounded in the head, and used him reproachfully.
5 And again he sent another, & him they killed: and many other, beating certain, and killing others.
6 Therefore having yet one son most dear; him also he sent unto them last saying: That they will reverence my son.
7 But the husbandmen said one to an other. This is the heir; come, let us kill him; and the inheritance shall be ours.
8 And apprehending him, they killed him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard.
9 What therefore will the Lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the husbandmen; and will give the vineyard to others.
10 Neither have you read this scripture, The stone which the builders rejected; the same is made the head of the corner:
11 By our Lord was this done, and it is marvelous in our eyes?
12 And they sought to lay hands on him, and they feared the multitude. For they knew that he spake this parable to them. And leaving him they went their way.
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