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Mark 12:2
And when the time came, he sent a servant to get from the workmen some of the fruit of the garden.
Mark 12:2 · Bible in Basic English
Mark 12:2 in other translations
And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
At harvest time, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard.
When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.
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In context
1 And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.
2 And when the time came, he sent a servant to get from the workmen some of the fruit of the garden.
3 And they took him, and gave him blows, and sent him away with nothing.
4 And again he sent to them another servant; and they gave him wounds on the head, and were very cruel to him.
5 And he sent another; and they put him to death: and a number of others, whipping some, and putting some to death.
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