Mark 12:2

When harvest-time came, he sent one of his servants to the tenant farmers to collect some of the grapes from the vineyard.

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In The King James Version

And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.

In Context

1Then Jesus began to speak to them using illustrated stories. “Once there was a man who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to some farmers, and left on a journey.

3But they grabbed hold of him, beat him up, and sent him away with nothing.

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Cross References

2 Kings 17:13Yet the Lord had warned Israel and Judah repeatedly through all his prophets and seers, saying, “Leave your wicked ways and keep my commandments and instructions. Follow the whole law that I ordered your forefathers to obey, and gave to you through my servants the prophets.”

Ezra 9:11that you gave through your servants the prophets, telling us, ‘The land you are entering to become its owners is contaminated by the sins of its peoples, the disgusting religious practices that they have filled it with, from one side to the other.

Jeremiah 25:4Even though the Lord has sent all his servants the prophets to you time and again, you don't bother to listen or pay any attention.

Jeremiah 44:4I sent you all my servants the prophets time and again to warn you: “Don't do these offensive things that I hate.”

Zechariah 1:3So tell the people this: Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord Almighty.

Matthew 21:34At harvest-time, he sent his servants to the farmers to collect the fruit that belonged to him.

Matthew Henry on Mark 12:2-13

The Vineyard and Husbandmen. 1 And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. 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. 3 And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty. 4 And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones,… Read the whole commentary →

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