Mark 12:2 - English Standard Version 2016 When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. Matoleo zaidiKing 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 fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”
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.
which you commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land that you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land impure with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations that have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness.
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.
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 deeds, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to you and your fathers.’ But you did not incline your ear or listen to me.
Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, ‘Oh, do not do this abomination that I hate!’
Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the grapes have been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that my soul desires.
Were not these the words that the Lord proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, with her cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’”
When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit.
And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country.
But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.
When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,