Mark 12:1-12

The Parable of the Wicked Tenants

Mark 12:1-12

The Parable of the Wicked Tenants

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And he began to speak to them in parables: A certain man planted a vineyard and made a hedge about it and dug a place for the winefat and built a tower and let it to husbandmen: and went into a far country.
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And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant to receive of the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
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Who, having laid hands on him, beat and sent him away empty.
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And again he sent to them another servant: and him they wounded in the head and used him reproachfully.
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And again he sent another, and him they killed: and many others, of whom some they beat, and others they killed.
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Therefore, having yet one son, most dear to him, he also sent him unto them last of all, saying: They will reverence my son.
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But the husbandmen said one to another: This is the heir. Come let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours.
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And laying hold on him, they killed him and cast him out of the vineyard.
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What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those husbandmen and will give the vineyard to others.
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And have you not read this scripture, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner:
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By the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes.
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And they sought to lay hands on him: but they feared the people. For they knew that he spoke this parable to them. And leaving him, they went their way.
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Where else Scripture says this.

  • Psalms 118:22

    Remove from me reproach and contempt: because I have sought after thy testimonies.
    from verse 10

  • Psalms 118:23

    For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was employed in thy justifications.
    from verse 10

  • 1 Peter 2:7

    To you therefore that believe, he is honour: but to them that believe not, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner:
    from verse 10

  • 1 Peter 2:8

    And a stone of stumbling and a rock of scandal, to them who stumble at the word, neither do believe, whereunto also they are set.
    from verse 10

  • Isaiah 28:16

    Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lay a stone in the foundations of Sion, a tried stone, a corner stone, a precious stone, founded in the foundation. He that believeth, let him not hasten.
    from verse 10

  • Luke 20:17

    But he looking on them, said: What is this then that is written, The stone, which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?
    from verse 10

  • Luke 20:18

    Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be bruised: and upon whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
    from verse 10

  • Matthew 21:42

    Jesus saith to them: Have you never read in the Scriptures: The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? By the Lord this has been done; and it is wonderful in our eyes.
    from verse 10

  • Acts 4:11

    This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, which is become the head of the corner.
    from verse 10

  • Acts 4:12

    Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved.
    from verse 10

  • Isaiah 5:1

    I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a hill in a fruitful place.
    from verse 1

  • Isaiah 5:4

    What is there that I ought to do more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? was it that I looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it hath brought forth wild grapes?
    from verse 1
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