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Then begane he to put forthe to the people this similitude. A certayne man planted a vyneyarde and let it forthe to fermers and went him selfe into a straunge countre for a greate season.
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And when the tyme was come he sent a servaut to his tennauntes that they shuld geve him of the frutes of the vyneyarde. And the tennauntes dyd bet him and sent him awaye empty.
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And agayne he sent yet another servaunt. And they dyd bet him and foule entreated him also and sent him awaye emptye.
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Moreover he sent the thyrde to and him they wouded and cast out.
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Then sayde the lorde of the vyneyarde: what shall I do? I will sende my deare sonne him peradventure they will reverence when they se him.
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But when the fermers sawe him they thought in them selves sayinge: this is the heyre come let vs kyll him that the inheritaunce maye be oures.
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And they cast him out of the vyneyarde and kylled him. Now what shall the Lorde of the vyneyarde do vnto them?
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He will come and destroye those fermers and will let out his vyneyarde to other. When they hearde that they sayde: God forbyd.
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And he behelde them and sayde: what meaneth this then yt is wrytten: The stone that the bylders refused the same is made ye heed corner stone?
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whosoever stomble at that stone shalbe broken: but on whosoever it faul vpon it wyll grynde him to powder.
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And the hye Prestes and the Scribes the same howre went about to laye hondes on him but they feared the people. For they perceaved that he had spoken this similitude agaynst them.