Matthew:21:33-45
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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 :
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And when the time of the fruit drew near ,
he sent his servants to the husbandmen ,
that they might receive the fruits of it .
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And the husbandmen took his servants ,
and beat one ,
and killed another ,
and stoned another .
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Again ,
he sent other servants more than the first :
and they did unto them likewise .
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But last of all he sent unto them his son ,
saying ,
They will reverence my son .
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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 .
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And they caught him ,
and cast him out of the vineyard ,
and slew him .
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When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh ,
what will he do unto those husbandmen ?
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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 .
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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 ?
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Therefore say I unto you ,
The kingdom of God shall be taken from you ,
and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof .
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And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken :
but on whomsoever it shall fall ,
it will grind him to powder .
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And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables ,
they perceived that he spake of them .