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Yeshua began speaking to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the wine press and built a tower; then he rented it to tenant-farmers and left.
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When harvest-time came, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the crop from the vineyard.
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But they took him, beat him up and sent him away empty-handed.
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So he sent another servant; this one they punched in the head and insulted.
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He sent another one, and him they killed; and so with many others -- some they beat up, others they killed.
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He had still one person left, a son whom he loved; in the end, he sent him to them, saying, `My son they will respect.'
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But the tenants said to each other, `This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!'
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So they seized him, killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.
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What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come, destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others!
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Haven't you read the passage in the Tanakh that says, `The very rock which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone!