Mark 12:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 When the season came, he sent a slave to the tenants to collect from them his share of the produce of the vineyard. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When the season came, he sent a bond servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. American Standard Version (1901) And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruits of the vineyard. Common English Bible When it was time, he sent a servant to collect from the tenants his share of the fruit of the vineyard. Catholic Public Domain Version And in time, he sent a servant to the farmers, in order to receive some of the fruit of the vineyard from the farmers. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant to receive of the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard. |
Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the law that I commanded your ancestors and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”
The Lord, the God of their ancestors, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place,
which you commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land unclean with the pollutions of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations. They have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness.
They are like trees planted by streams of water, which yield their fruit in its season, and their leaves do not wither. In all that they do, they prosper.
I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, “Turn now every one of you from your evil way, and amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall live in the land that I gave to you and your ancestors.” But you did not incline your ear or obey me.
Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, “I beg you not to do this abominable thing that I hate!”
Woe is me! For I have become like one who, after the summer fruit has been gathered, after the vintage has been gleaned, finds no cluster to eat; there is no first-ripe fig for which I hunger.
Were not these the words that the Lord proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, along with the towns around it, and when the Negeb and the Shephelah were inhabited?”
When the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his produce.
Then he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a pit for the winepress, and built a watchtower; then he leased it to tenants and went away.
But the one who did not know and did what deserved a beating will receive a light beating. From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required, and from the one to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be demanded.
When the season came, he sent a slave to the tenants in order that they might give him his share of the produce of the vineyard, but the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets,