33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: |
34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. |
35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. |
36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. |
37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. |
38 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. |
39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him. |
40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? |
41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons. |
42 Jesus saith 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 marvellous in our eyes? |
43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. |
