Mark 12:1-17

1Yeshua began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, and built a tower. He leased it to some tenant farmers and went on a journey.

2And at the season, he sent a servant to collect from the tenants part of the vineyard’s fruit.

3But grabbing him, they beat him up and sent him away empty-handed.

4And again the man sent another servant to them, and they wounded his head and treated him shamefully.

5He sent another, and that one they killed; and so on with many others, beating some and killing some.

6He had yet one, a well-loved son. He sent him to them last of all, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

7“But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir! Come on, let’s kill him and the inheritance will be ours!’

8So grabbing the son, they killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.

9“What then will the master of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others.

10Haven’t you read this Scripture? ‘The stone which the builders rejected, this has become the chief cornerstone.

11This came from Adonai, and it is marvelous in our eyes.’”

12They were trying to seize Yeshua, because they realized that He spoke the parable against them. But they feared the crowd, so they left Him and went away.

13Then they send some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Yeshua in order to trap Him with a word.

14They come and say to Him, “Teacher, we know that You are honest, and what others think doesn’t concern You. You don’t look at men’s appearance, but teach the way of God according to the truth. Is it permitted to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

15Should we pay, or shouldn’t we?” But Yeshua saw through their hypocrisy and said to them, “Why are you testing Me? Bring Me a denarius so I may see it.”

16They brought one. And He said to them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?” “Caesar’s,” they said to Him.

17Then Yeshua said to them, “Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they were completely amazed at Him.