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But those tenants said to one another, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'
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And they took him and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
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What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants, and give the vineyard to others.
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Have you not read this scripture: 'The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner;
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this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?"
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.