Matthew 21:33-41 ▼

33 Hearken another similitude. There was a certayne man, an householder, which made a vineyarde, & hedged it rounde about, and made a wynepresse in it, and buylt a towre, and let it out to husbande men: and went into a strange countrey.

34 And when the time of the fruite drewe neare, he sent his seruauntes to the husbande men, that they might receaue the fruites of it.

35 And the husbande men caught his seruauntes, and beatte one, killed another, and stoned another.

36 Agayne, he sent other seruauntes, mo then the first: and they dyd vnto them lykewyse.

37 But laste of all, he sent vnto them his owne sonne, saying: they wyll stande in awe of my sonne.

38 But when the husband men sawe the sonne, they sayde among them selues: this is the heire, come, let vs kyll hym, and let vs enioy his inheritaunce.

39 And they caught hym, and thrust him out of the vineyarde, and slewe hym .

40 When the Lorde therfore of the vineyarde commeth, what wyll he do vnto those husbande men?

41 They sayde vnto hym: He wyll miserably destroy those wicked men & wyll let out his vineyard vnto other husband men, which shall delyuer him the fruite in due seasons.