rsv - Matthew:21:33-44

rsv@Matthew:21:33 @ "Hear 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.

rsv@Matthew:21:34 @ When the season of fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants, to get his fruit;

rsv@Matthew:21:35 @ and the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

rsv@Matthew:21:36 @ Again he sent other servants, more than the first; and they did the same to them.

rsv@Matthew:21:37 @ Afterward he sent his son to them, saying, `They will respect my son.'

rsv@Matthew:21:38 @ But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, `This is the heir; come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.'

rsv@Matthew:21:39 @ And they took him and cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

rsv@Matthew:21:40 @ When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?"

rsv@Matthew:21:41 @ They said to him, "He 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."

rsv@Matthew:21:42 @ Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures: `The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner; this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?

rsv@Matthew:21:43 @ Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation producing the fruits of it."

rsv@Matthew:21:44 @ When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them.