Matthew 21:33-45
-
33 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:
-
34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
-
35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
-
36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
-
37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.
-
38 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.
-
39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
-
40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?
-
41 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.
-
42 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?
-
43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
-
44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
-
45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.