Mark 12:2

At the right time, he sent a servant to the vine growers to receive from them some of the fruit of 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 teach them in parables. He said, “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, and dug a pit for a winepress. He built a watchtower and then leased the vineyard to vine growers. Then he went away on a journey.

3But they took him, beat him, and sent him away with nothing.

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Cross References

2 Kings 17:13Yet Yahweh had testified to Israel and to Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, and be careful to keep all the law I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”

Ezra 9:11the commands that you gave to your servants the prophets, when you said, “This land that you are entering to possess is an unclean land. It is contaminated by the people of the lands with their abominations. They have filled it from one end to the other with their uncleanness.

Jeremiah 25:4Yahweh sent out all his servants the prophets to you again and again, but you have not listened or paid any attention.

Jeremiah 44:4So I repeatedly sent all of my servants the prophets to them. I sent them to say, 'Stop doing these abominable things that I hate.'

Zechariah 1:3Say to them, 'Yahweh of hosts says this: 1 Turn to me!—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts— 1 and I will return to you, says Yahweh of hosts.

Matthew 21:34When the time of the fruit harvest approached, he sent some servants to the vine growers to get his fruit.

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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