Mark 12:7 Made Simple

KJV ORIGINAL

But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our’s.

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✦ MADE SIMPLE

But the workers running the vineyard looked at each other and said, 'Wait, this is the owner's son who's going to inherit everything. If we kill him, we can take it all for ourselves.'

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

Sometimes people convince themselves that getting rid of what's right will somehow make them the winners.

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Jesus started telling them stories to make his point. He said, 'There was this guy who planted a vineyard and did everything right — put up a fence around it, dug out a spot for making wine, built a watchtower for security. Then he rented it out to some farmers to run the place while he traveled to another country.'

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