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. |
34 | When the season of fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants, to get his fruit; |
35 | and the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. |
36 | Again he sent other servants, more than the first; and they did the same to them. |
37 | Afterward he sent his son to them, saying, `They will respect my son.' |
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.' |
39 | And they took him and cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. |
40 | When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?" |
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." |
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'? |
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." |