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- "Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who PLANTED A VINEYARD AND PUT A WALL AROUND IT AND DUG A WINE PRESS IN IT, AND BUILT A TOWER, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.
- "When the harvest time approached, he sent his slaves to the vine-growers to receive his produce.
- "The vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third.
- "Again he sent another group of slaves larger than the first; and they did the same thing to them.
- "But afterward he sent his son to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'
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- 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.
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- "But when the vine-growers saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.'
- "They took him, and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
- "Therefore when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine-growers?"
- They said to Him, "He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, and will rent out the vineyard to other vine-growers who will pay him the proceeds at the proper seasons."
- Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone; THIS CAME ABOUT FROM THE LORD, AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES'?
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- 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?
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- "Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it.
- "And he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust."
- When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they understood that He was speaking about them.
- When they sought to seize Him, they feared the people, because they considered Him to be a prophet.
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- 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.
- And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.
- But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
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