Mar 12:1-12 | ESV | STEP | And he began to speak to them in parables . A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower , and leased it to tenants and went into another country .

1 ^aAnd he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted ^ba vineyard ^cand put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and ^dleased it to tenants and ^ewent into another country. 2 When the season came, he sent a servant ^{▼▼Greek bondservant; also verse 4} to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. 3 ^gAnd they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 4 ^hAgain ⁱhe sent to them another servant, and ^jthey struck him on the head and ^ktreated him shamefully. 5 ^lAnd he sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed. 6 He had still one other, ^ma beloved son. ⁿFinally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 7 But those tenants said to one another, ^o‘This is the heir. Come, ^plet us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ 8 And they took him and killed him and ^qthrew him out of the vineyard. 9 What will the owner of the vineyard do? ^rHe will ^scome and destroy the tenants and ^tgive the vineyard to others. 10 ^uHave you not read ^vthis Scripture:

^w“‘The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone; ^{▼▼Greek the head of the corner}
11 this was the Lord’s doing,
and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”

12 And ^ythey were seeking to arrest him ^zbut feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they ^aaleft him and went away.