Mark 12:1-9

Wycliffe Bible

12 And Jesus began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and delved a lake, and builded a tower [and built a tower], and hired it to earth-tillers, and went forth in pilgrimage.

² And he sent to the earth-tillers in time a servant, to receive of the earth-tillers of the fruit of the vineyard.^[a]

³ And they took him, and beat him, and let him go void [and left him void].

⁴ And again he sent to them another servant, and they wounded him in the head, and tormented him [and punished him with chidings, or reprovings].

⁵ And again he sent another, and they slew him, and others more, beating some, and slaying others. [And again he sent another, and they killed him, and others more, and they beat some, soothly they killed others.]

⁶ But yet he had a most dear-worthy son, and he sent him last to them, and said [Therefore yet he having one son most dear-worthy, and to them he sent him the last, saying], Peradventure they shall dread [with reverence] my son.

⁷ But the earth-tillers said together [said to themselves], This is the heir; come ye, slay we him, and the heritage shall be ours.

⁸ And they took him, and killed him, and casted [cast] him out without the vineyard.

⁹ Then what shall the lord of the vineyard do [What therefore shall the lord of the vinery do]? He shall come, and destroy [and lose] the earth-tillers, and give the vineyard to others.