Mark 12:2 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

And when the [grape harvest] season came, the owner of the farm sent a slave to the tenant farmers asking them to deliver the grape crop [to him].

More versions

And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.

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

And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruits of the vineyard.

When it was time, he sent a servant to collect from the tenants his share of the fruit of the vineyard.

And in time, he sent a servant to the farmers, in order to receive some of the fruit of the vineyard from the farmers.

And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant to receive of the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.