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.