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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Mark 12
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!’
⁸ They took him, and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.
⁹ What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vine-growers, and will give the vineyard to others.
¹⁰ Have you not even read this Scripture: ’THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone;
¹¹ THIS CAME ABOUT FROM THE LORD, AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES’?"
¹² And they were seeking to seize Him, and yet they feared the people, for they understood that He spoke the parable against them. And so they left Him and went away.
¹³ Then they *sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Him in order to trap Him in a statement.
¹⁴ They *came and *said to Him, "Teacher, we know that You are truthful and defer to no one; for You are not partial to any, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay a poll-tax to Caesar, or not?