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And he began to speak unto them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a pit for the winepress, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country.
2
And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruits of the vineyard.
3
And they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
4
And again he sent unto them another servant; and him they wounded in the head, and handled shamefully.
5
And he sent another; and him they killed: and many others; beating some, and killing some.
6
He had yet one, a beloved son: he sent him last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
7
But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.
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And they took him, and killed him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard.