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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Mark 11
³⁰ Was the baptism of John from heaven, or from men? Answer Me."
³¹ They began reasoning among themselves, saying, "If we say, ’From heaven,’ He will say, ’Then why did you not believe him?’
³² But shall we say, ’From men’?"-they were afraid of the people, for everyone considered John to have been a real prophet.
³³ Answering Jesus, they *said, "We do not know." And Jesus *said to them, "Nor will I tell you by what authority I do these things."
Mark 12
¹ And He began to speak to them in parables: "A man PLANTED A VINEYARD AND PUT A WALL AROUND IT, AND DUG A VAT UNDER THE WINE PRESS AND BUILT A TOWER, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.
² At the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, in order to receive some of the produce of the vineyard from the vine-growers.
³ They took him, and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
⁴ Again he sent them another slave, and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully.
⁵ And he sent another, and that one they killed; and so with many others, beating some and killing others.
⁶ He had one more to send, a beloved son; he sent him last of all to them, saying, ’They will respect my son.’
⁷ But those vine-growers said to one another, ’This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’