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"Hear another parable: There was a certain householder who planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen and went into a far country.
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And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
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And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one and killed another and stoned another.
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Again, he sent other servants, more than the first; and they did unto them likewise.
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But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, `They will reverence my son.'
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But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, `This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.'
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And they caught him and cast him out of the vineyard and slew him.
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When therefore the lord of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?"
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They said unto Him, "He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, who shall render him the fruits in their seasons."
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Jesus said unto them, "Did ye never read in the Scriptures: `The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner. This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?
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Therefore say I unto you, the Kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.