Hello everyone, welcome back! My name is Elise Brooklyn and this is Scattering Flowers, a podcast where we scatter flowers of faith.
Today is Monday, June 3rd, and we will be reading Mark 12, 1-12.
Follow along in your Bible if you have one.
Now let’s read Mark 12, 1-12.
And he began to speak to them in parables.
A man planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, and dug a pit for the winepress, and built a tower and lint to the tenants, and went to another country.
In the time game he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard, and they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
Again he sent to them another servant, and they wounded him in the head and treated him shamefully.
And he sent another, and him they killed.
And so with many others, some they beat and some they killed, he had still one another, a beloved son.
Finally he sent him to them, saying, They will respect my son.
But those tenants said to one another, This is the heir.
Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.
And they took him and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
What will the owner of the vineyard do?
He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others.
Have you not read the scripture?
That very stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
This is what the Lord is doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.
And they tried to arrest him, but feared the multitude, for they perceived that he had told a parable against them.
So they left him and went away.
I had some help from my mom for this reading.
It was a little confusing.
She told me that Jesus taught with simple stories called parables, as a way of teaching his disciples lessons he wanted them to learn.
Today we read a parable about the vineyard.
You might say, What’s the point of this?
What does it mean to me?
This story made me kind of sad because of how they killed the son.
When I talked it over with my mom, she said that Jesus told this parable as if he were the son.
He was killed for us, for our sins.
It still makes me sad to think about this parable, but I thank Jesus for dying on the cross for my sins.
Let’s pray.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, dear God, thank you for our many blessings.
Please help us to praise you for all that you do.
Thank you for your love.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Thank you so much for listening.
I’ll be back tomorrow scattering more flowers.
See ya!