Mark 12:1-3

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Jesus tells a story about a garden

12 Then Jesus began to speak again to the important Jews. He told them stories. He said, ‘There was a man who made a garden. He planted vines to grow grapes there. He built a wall around the garden. He dug a hole in the ground where he could make the grapes into wine. He also built a tall building to watch over the garden.^[a] He found some farmers who would work in the garden for him. Then he went away to another country.^[b]

² At the time for the harvest, the man sent a servant to speak to the farmers.^[c] He wanted them to give him some fruit from the garden. ³ But the farmers took hold of the servant and they hit him with sticks. They sent him away with nothing.