Daily Discovery Bible Study

1 Then 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.

2 When harvest-time came, he sent one of his servants to the tenant farmers to collect some of the grapes from the vineyard.3 But they grabbed hold of him, beat him up, and sent him away with nothing.4 So the man sent another servant. They hit him over the head and abused him.5 He sent another servant, and this one they killed. He sent many other servants, and they beat some of them and killed others.6 In the end the only one left was his son whom he loved, and eventually he sent him, thinking ‘they will respect my son.’7 But the farmers said to themselves, ‘Here's the owner's heir—if we kill him, we can get what he would have inherited!’8 So they took him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.9 Now what is the owner of the vineyard going to do? He will come and kill those farmers, and then he will lease the vineyard to others.

10 Haven't you even read this Scripture: ‘The stone rejected by the builders has become the chief cornerstone.11 This is from the Lord, and it's marvelous to see!’?”

Mark 12: 1-11