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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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- "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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- "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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