Mark 12:1-7

1 And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
2 And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
3 And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
4 And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.
5 And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others*; beating some, and killing some.
6 Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying*, They will reverence my son.
7 But those husbandmen said among themselves, This* is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.
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