Mark 12:1-12

Parable of the Vine-growers

1 ¹And He began to speak to them in parables: "²A man ³PLANTED 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.

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 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: '⁴THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone;

11 ⁵THIS CAME ABOUT FROM THE LORD, AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES '?"

12 ⁶And they were seeking to seize Him, and yet they feared the people, for they understood that He spoke the parable against them. And so ⁷they left Him and went away.

Cross References

• 1. Mark 3:23; Mark 4:2f
• 2. Mark 12:1-12: {Matthew 21:33-46; Luke 20:9-19}
• 3. Isaiah 5:1, 2
• 4. Psalms 118:22
• 5. Psalms 118:23
• 6. Mark 11:18
• 7. Matthew 22:22

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "fence"
• [b]. Or "tenant farmers," also vv 2, 7, 9
• [c]. Lit "lord"
• [d]. Lit "crowd"