Mark 12:2 - Tree of Life Version And at the season, he sent a servant to collect from the tenants part of the vineyard’s fruit. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 Adonai had forewarned Israel and Judah by the hand of every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the Torah which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by the hand of My servants the prophets.”
Adonai, the God of their fathers, sent word to them through His messengers again and again, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.
that You commanded through Your servants the prophets saying, ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land defiled by the impurities of the peoples of the lands. Through their abominations, they have filled it from one end to the other with their uncleanness.
He will be like a planted tree over streams of water, producing its fruit during its season. Its leaf never droops— but in all he does, he succeeds.
“I have sent also to you all My servants the prophets, sending them early and often, saying: ‘Return you now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and you will dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers; but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to Me.
Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets, sending them early and often, saying: ‘Oh, do not do this loathsome thing that I hate.’
Woe is me! For I am like gatherings of produce in summer, like gleanings of a vineyard. There is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that I crave.
Are not these the words that Adonai proclaimed through the former prophets when Jerusalem with its surrounding cities were inhabited and prosperous, when the Negev and the lowland were inhabited?’”
Now when fruit season drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.
Yeshua began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, and built a tower. He leased it to some tenant farmers and went on a journey.
But the one who did not know and did things worthy of a beating will be whipped lightly. From everyone given much, much will be required; and from the one for whom more is provided, all the more they will ask of him.
And at the season, he sent a servant to the tenants so that they would give him part of the vineyard’s fruit. But the tenants beat him up and sent him away empty-handed.
At many times and in many ways, God spoke long ago to the fathers through the prophets.