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- "Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and went away on a journey.
- When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.
- "The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
- Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way.
- Last of all, he sent his son to them. 'They will respect my son,' he said.
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- "But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him and take his inheritance.'
- So 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 tenants?"
- "He will bring those wretches to a wretched end," they replied, "and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time."
- Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the Scriptures: " 'The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?
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- "Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.
- He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed."
- When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus' parables, they knew he was talking about them.
- They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet.
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