Mark 12:1-9

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.