\u201cHear another parable. There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country. When the season of fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants, to get his fruit; and the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again he sent other servants, more than the first; and they did the same to them. Afterward he sent his son to them, saying, \u2018They will respect my son.\u2019 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, \u2018This is the heir; come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.\u2019 And they took him and cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?\u201d They said to him, \u201cHe will put those wretches to a miserable death, and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jesus said to them, \u201cHave you never read in the scriptures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018The very stone which the builders rejected
has become the head of the corner;
this was the Lord\u2019s doing,
and it is marvelous in our eyes\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation producing the fruits of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them. But when they tried to arrest him, they feared the multitudes, because they held him to be a prophet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2013Matthew 21:33-46<\/p>
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