Mark 12:1-6

The Parable of the Tenants

1 ¹And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted ²a vineyard ³and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and ⁴leased it to tenants and ⁵went into another country.

2 When the season came, he sent a servant^[a] to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.

3 ⁶And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

4 ⁷Again ⁸he sent to them another servant, and ⁹they struck him on the head and ¹⁰treated him shamefully.

5 ¹¹And he sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed.

6 He had still one other, ¹²a beloved son. ¹³Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son. ’

Cross References

• 1. 12:1 For ver. 1-12, see Matt. 21:33-46; Luke 20:9-19
• 2. 12:1 Ps. 80:8; Isa. 5:1; Matt. 21:28
• 3. 12:1 Isa. 5:2
• 4. 12:1 Song 8:11, 12
• 5. 12:1 ch. 13:34; Matt. 25:14, 15
• 6. 12:3 Matt. 5:12; 22:6; 23:34, 37; [2 Chr. 24:19; 36:15, 16; Neh. 9:26; Jer. 37:15; 38:6; Acts 7:52; 2 Cor. 11:24-26; 1 Thess. 2:15; Heb. 11:36, 37]
• 7. 12:4 [See ver. 3 above]
• 8. 12:4 Matt. 22:4
• 9. 12:4 [Acts 14:19]
• 10. 12:4 Acts 5:41 (Gk.)
• 11. 12:5 [See ver. 3 above]
• 12. 12:6 See Matt. 3:17
• 13. 12:6 [Heb. 1:1]

Footnotes

• [a] 12:2 Greek 'bondservant'; also verse 4