Mark 12:1-3

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

12 And [Jesus] started to speak to them in parables [with comparisons and illustrations]. A man planted a vineyard and put a hedge around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower and let it out [for rent] to vinedressers and went into another country.

² When the season came, he sent a bond servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.

³ But they took him and beat him and sent him away without anything.