Mark 12:2 - Revised Standard Version CI

² When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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

² 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)

² 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

² 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

² And in time, he sent a servant to the farmers, in order to receive some of the fruit of the vineyard from the farmers.

Mark 12:2 Cross References

Hebrews 1:1

In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets;

Luke 20:10

When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, that they should give him some of the fruit of the vineyard; but the tenants beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

Luke 12:48

But he who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, shall receive a light beating. Every one to whom much is given, of him will much be required; and of him to whom men commit much they will demand the more.

Matthew 21:34

When the season of fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants, to get his fruit;

Zechariah 7:7

When Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, with her cities round about her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited, were not these the words which the Lord proclaimed by the former prophets?”

Micah 7:1

Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the vintage has been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig which my soul desires.

Jeremiah 44:4

Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, ‘Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate!’

Jeremiah 35:15

I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, ‘Turn now every one of you from his evil way, and amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall dwell in the land which I gave to you and your fathers.’ But you did not incline your ear or listen to me.

Psalm 1:3

He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

Ezra 9:11

which thou didst command by thy servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land which you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land unclean with the pollutions of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations which have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness.

2 Chronicles 36:15

The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place;

2 Kings 17:13

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 which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”

Mark 12:1

And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a pit for the wine press, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country.

Mark 12:3

And they took him and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.