Matthew:21:33-46

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

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