Mark 12:1-3

Revised Geneva Translation

12 And He began to speak to them in parables, “A certain man planted a vineyard, and surrounded it with a hedge, and dug a pit for the winepress, and built a tower on it, and leased it to farmers, and went into a strange country.

² “And at the right time, he sent a servant to them, so that he might receive word about the fruit of the vineyard.

³ “But they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.