The Parable of the Tenants
1 1And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted
2a vineyard
3and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and
4leased it to tenants and
5went into another country.
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When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.
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6And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
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7Again
8he sent to them another servant, and
9they struck him on the head and
10treated him shamefully.
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11And he sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed.
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He had still one other,
12a beloved son.
13Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son. ’
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But those tenants said to one another,
14‘This is the heir. Come,
15let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours. ’
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And they took him and killed him and
16threw him out of the vineyard.
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What will the owner of the vineyard do?
17He will
18come and destroy the tenants and
19give the vineyard to others.
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20Have you not read
21this Scripture:
22“‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;
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this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? ”