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The Parable of the Wicked Vinedressers
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder,
which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and
digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it
out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: And when
the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to
the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of
it. And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one,
and killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent
other servants more than the first: and they did unto
them likewise. But last of all he sent unto them his
son, saying, They will reverence my son. But when the
husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This
is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on
his inheritance. And they caught him, and cast him out
of the vineyard, and slew him.
When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what
will he do unto those husbandmen?
They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those
wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other
husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their
seasons.
Jesus saith unto them, Did ye
never read in the scriptures, The stone which the
builders rejected, the same is become the head of the
corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous
in our eyes?
Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be
taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the
fruits thereof. And whosoever shall fall on this stone
shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it
will grind him to powder.
Matthew 21: 33-43 |
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