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And Jesus began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and delved a lake, and builded a tower [and built a tower], and hired it to earth-tillers, and went forth in pilgrimage.
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And he sent to the earth-tillers in time a servant, to receive of the earth-tillers of the fruit of the vineyard. [+And he sent to the earth-tillers in time a servant, that he should receive of the fruit of the vineyard of the earth-tillers.]
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And they took him, and beat him, and let him go void [and left him void].
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And again he sent to them another servant, and they wounded him in the head, and tormented him [and punished him with chidings, or reprovings].
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And again he sent another, and they slew him, and others more, beating some, and slaying others. [And again he sent another, and they killed him, and others more, and they beat some, soothly they killed others.]
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But yet he had a most dear-worthy son, and he sent him last to them, and said [Therefore yet he having one son most dear-worthy, and to them he sent him the last, saying], Peradventure they shall dread [with reverence] my son.
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But the earth-tillers said together [said to themselves], This is the heir; come ye, slay we him, and the heritage shall be ours.
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And they took him, and killed him, and casted [cast] him out without the vineyard.
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Then what shall the lord of the vineyard do [What therefore shall the lord of the vinery do]? He shall come, and destroy [and lose] the earth-tillers, and give the vineyard to others.
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Whether ye have not read this scripture, The stone which the builders have despised, this is made into the head of the corner?
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This thing is done of the Lord, and it is wonderful in our eyes.