New International Reader's Version

Mark 12:4-9 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

4. So the man sent another servant to the renters. They hit this one on the head and treated him badly.

5. The man sent still another servant. The renters killed him. The man sent many others. The renters beat up some of them. They killed the others.

6. "The man had one person left to send. It was his son, and he loved him. He sent him last of all. He said, 'They will respect my son.'

7. "But the renters said to each other, 'This is the one who will receive all the owner's property someday. Come, let's kill him. Then everything will be ours.'

8. So they took him and killed him. They threw him out of the vineyard.

9. "What will the owner of the vineyard do then? He will come and kill those renters. He will give the vineyard to others.