Matthew 21:33-41 ▼

33 |Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who PLANTED A VINEYARD AND PUT A WALL AROUND IT AND DUG A WINE PRESS IN IT, AND BUILT A TOWER, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.

34 |When the harvest time approached, he sent his slaves to the vine-growers to receive his produce.

35 |The vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third.

36 |Again he sent another group of slaves larger than the first; and they did the same thing to them.

37 |But afterward he sent his son to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

38 |But when the vine-growers saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.'

39 |They took him, and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

40 |Therefore when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine-growers?|

41 They said to Him, |He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, and will rent out the vineyard to other vine-growers who will pay him the proceeds at the [proper] seasons.|