Matthew 21:33-42 (Gospel)
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- Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country.
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- Now when vintage-time drew near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers, that they might receive its fruit.
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- And the vinedressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another.
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- Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and they did likewise to them.
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- Then last of all he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
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- But when the vinedressers saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.’
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- So they took him and cast him out of the vineyard and killed him.
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- Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vinedressers?”
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- They said to Him, “He will destroy those wicked men miserably, and lease his vineyard to other vinedressers who will render to him the fruits in their seasons.”
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- Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone. This was the LORD’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?