Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

Mark 11
³³ So they answered and said to Jesus, "We do not know." And Jesus answered and said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things."
Mark 12
¹ Then He began to speak to them in parables: "A man planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a place for the wine vat and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country.
² Now at vintage-time he sent a servant to the vinedressers, that he might receive some of the fruit of the vineyard from the vinedressers.
³ And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
⁴ Again he sent them another servant, and at him they threw stones, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.
⁵ And again he sent another, and him they killed; and many others, beating some and killing some.
⁶ Therefore still having one son, his beloved, he also sent him to them last, saying, ’They will respect my son.’
⁷ But those vinedressers said among themselves, ’This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’
⁸ So they took him and killed him and cast him out of the vineyard.
⁹ Therefore what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vinedressers, and give the vineyard to others.
¹⁰ Have you not even read this Scripture: ’The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone.