Mark 12:1

¹And 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.a

Mark 12 presents a series of confrontations between Jesus and the religious leaders in Jerusalem, escalating the tension that will lead to the cross. Through parables, debates, and a poignant observation, Jesus exposes the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees, affirms the core of