Mark 12:1-3

Amplified Bible

Parable of the Vineyard Owner

12 Jesus began to speak to them [the chief priests, scribes and elders who were questioning Him] in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a ^[a]wall around it, and dug a pit for the wine press and built a tower; and he rented it out to tenant farmers and left the country.^{(A) 2} When the harvest season came he sent a ^[b]servant to the tenants, in order to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. ³ They took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.