Matthew 21:33-40 Listen to another parable. A man, who was an employer, once planted a vineyard, put a fence round it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, and then let it out to tenants and went abroad.

Twentieth_Century⁽ⁱ⁾ ³³ Listen to another parable. A man, who was an employer, once planted a vineyard, put a fence round it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, and then let it out to tenants and went abroad. ³⁴ When the time for the vintage drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants, to receive his share of the produce. ³⁵ But the tenants seized his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. ³⁶ A second time the owner sent some servants, a larger number than before, and the tenants treated them in the same way. ³⁷ As a last resource he sent his son to them. 'They will respect my son,' he said. ³⁸ But the tenants, on seeing his son, said to each other 'Here is the heir! Come, let us kill him, and get his inheritance.' ³⁹ So they seized him, and threw him outside the vineyard, and killed him. ⁴⁰ Now, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?"