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Which of the two did the will of the father? They say [to him], The first. Jesus says to them, Verily I say unto you that the tax-gatherers and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
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For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the tax-gatherers and the harlots believed him; but *ye* when ye saw [it] repented not yourselves afterwards to believe him.
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Hear another parable: There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.
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But when the time of fruit drew near, he sent his bondmen to the husbandmen to receive his fruits.
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And the husbandmen took his bondmen, and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
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Again he sent other bondmen more than the first, and they did to them in like manner.
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And at last he sent to them his son, saying, They will have respect for my son.
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But the husbandmen, seeing the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him and possess his inheritance.
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And they took him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him.
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When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what shall he do to those husbandmen?
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They say to him, He will miserably destroy those evil [men], and let out the vineyard to other husbandmen, who shall render him the fruits in their seasons.