FEBRUARY 23, 2025 PORTALS OF PRAYER READINGS
Mark 12:1-12
The Parable of the Tenants
12 And
he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a
vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a
tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country. 2 When the season came, he sent a servant[a] to the
tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. 3 And they took him and beat him and sent him away
empty-handed. 4 Again he sent to them
another servant, and they struck him on the head and treated him shamefully.
5 And he sent another, and him they killed. And
so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed. 6 He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he
sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 7 But
those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him,
and the inheritance will be ours.’ 8 And
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 tenants and give the vineyard to others. 10 Have you not read this Scripture:
“‘The stone that the builders rejected
has
become the cornerstone;[b]
11 this was the Lord's doing,
and
it is marvelous in our eyes’?”
12 And they were seeking to
arrest him but feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the
parable against them. So they left him and went away.
Footnotes
- Mark 12:2 Or bondservant;
also verse 4
- Mark 12:10 Greek the
head of the corner
Psalm 118:19-24
19 Open to me the gates of
righteousness,
that
I may enter through them
and
give thanks to the Lord.
20 This is the gate of the Lord;
the
righteous shall enter through it.
21 I thank you that you have answered me
and
have become my salvation.
22 The stone that the builders rejected
has
become the cornerstone.[a]
23 This is the Lord's doing;
it
is marvelous in our eyes.
24 This is the day that the Lord has made;
let
us rejoice and be glad in it.
Footnotes
- Psalm 118:22 Hebrew
the head of the corner
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