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Mark 12:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

At harvest time he sent   a servant   to the farmers to collect some of the fruit   of the vineyard from them.

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Long ago God spoke  to our ancestors by the prophets  at different times and in different ways.


At harvest time he sent a servant to the farmers so that they might give him some fruit from the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him away empty-handed.


But the one who did not know and did what deserved   punishment will receive a light beating. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, even more will be expected.   ,


When the time came to harvest fruit, he sent his servants to the farmers to collect his fruit.


Aren’t these the words that the Lord proclaimed through the earlier prophets when Jerusalem was inhabited and secure,  along with its surrounding cities, and when the southern region and the Judean foothills were inhabited? ’


How sad for me! For I am like one who – when the summer fruit has been gathered after the gleaning of the grape harvest   – finds no grape cluster to eat, no early fig, which I crave.


So I sent you all my servants the prophets time and time again,  , saying, “Don’t commit this detestable action that I hate.”


Time and time again  I have sent you all my servants the prophets, proclaiming, ‘Turn, each one from his evil way,  and correct your actions. Stop following other gods to serve them.  Live in the land that I gave you and your ancestors.’ But you did not pay attention or obey me.


you gave through your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land you are entering to possess is an impure land. The surrounding peoples have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness by their impurity and detestable practices.


But the Lord, the God of their ancestors sent word against them by the hand of his messengers, sending them time and time again,  for he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.


Still, the Lord warned  Israel and Judah through every prophet and every seer, saying, ‘Turn from your evil ways and keep my commands and statutes according to the whole law I commanded your ancestors and sent to you through my servants the prophets.’


He  began to speak to them in parables: ‘A man planted a vineyard,   put a fence round it, dug out a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.


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





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