Slides to accompany the Easter 2015 #Sundayatgrace audio file on Mark 12:1-12 which can be found on archive.org

1. Welcome to Grace
Happy Easter!

2. Mark 12:1-12
• Introduction

3. Mark 12:1-12
• Introduction
• The vineyard, v. 1
“Then he began to speak to them in parables:
“A man planted a vineyard.
He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its
winepress, and built a watchtower.
Then he leased it to tenant farmers and
went on a journey.”

4. Mark 12:1-12
• Introduction
• The vineyard, v. 1
– What’s happening?
“Then he began to speak to them in parables:

5. Mark 12:1-12
• Introduction
• The vineyard, v. 1
– What’s happening?
– The Vineyard …
““A man planted a vineyard.”

6. Isaiah 5
My love had a vineyard
on a fertile hill.
2 He built a hedge around it, removed its stones,
and planted a vine.
He built a tower in the middle of it,
and constructed a winepress.
He waited for it to produce edible grapes,
but it produced sour ones instead.
3 So now, residents of Jerusalem,
people of Judah,
you decide between me and my vineyard!
4 What more can I do for my vineyard
beyond what I have already done?
When I waited for it to produce edible grapes,
why did it produce sour ones instead?

7. Mark 12:1-12
• Introduction
• The vineyard, v. 1
– What’s happening?
– The Vineyard …
– What he provided for
“He put a fence around it,
dug a pit for its winepress,
and built a watchtower.”

8. Mark 12:1-12
• Introduction
• The vineyard, v. 1
– What’s happening?
– The Vineyard …
– What he provided for
• The return, v. 2
“At harvest time he sent a slave to the tenants
to collect from them his portion of the crop.”

9. Mark 12:1-12
• Introduction
• The vineyard, v. 1
– What’s happening?
– The Vineyard …
– What he provided for
• The return, v. 2
• The response, vv. 3-8

10. Mark 12:3-8
But those tenants seized his slave, beat him, and sent
him away empty-handed.
4 So he sent another slave to them again. This one they
struck on the head and treated outrageously.
5 He sent another, and that one they killed. This
happened to many others, some of whom were beaten,
others killed.
6 He had one left, his one dear 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’s kill him and the inheritance will be ours!’
8 So they seized him, killed him, and threw his body out
of the vineyard.

11. Mark 12:1-12
• Introduction
• The vineyard, v. 1
– What’s happening?
– The Vineyard …
– What he provided for
• The return, v. 2
• The response, vv. 3-8
• The repossession and re-assignment, v. 9
“What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come
and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.”

12. Mark 12:1-12
• Introduction
• The vineyard, v. 1
– What’s happening?
– The Vineyard …
– What he provided for
• The return, v. 2
• The response, vv. 3-8
• The repossession and re-assignment, v. 9
• The rejecters’ response, vv. 10-12

13. Mark 12:10-12
Have you not read this scripture:
‘The stone the builders rejected has become the
cornerstone.
11 This is from the Lord, and it is marvellous in
our eyes’?”
12 Now they wanted to arrest him (but they
feared the crowd), because they realized that he
told this parable against them.
So they left him and went away.

14. Mark 12:1-12
• Introduction
• The vineyard, v. 1
– What’s happening?
– The Vineyard …
– What he provided for
• The return, v. 2
• The response, vv. 3-8
• The repossession and re-assignment, v. 9
• The rejecters’ response, vv. 10-12
• Conclusion