Bible verses about "vineyards" | Anderson

³³ Hear another parable: There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around it, and rigged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and let it out to vine-dressers, and went into another country. ³⁴ And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the vine-dressers to receive the fruits of it. ³⁵ And the vine-dressers took his servants, and scourged one, and killed another, and stoned another. ³⁶ Again he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them in like manner. ³⁷ But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. ³⁸ But the vine-dressers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and seize upon the inheritance. ³⁹ And they took him, and carried him out of the vineyard, and killed him. ⁴⁰ Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine dressers? ⁴¹ They said to him: He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and let out his vineyard to other vine dressers, who will give him the fruits in their season.

⁶ And he spoke this parable: A certain man had a fig-tree that was planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit on it, and found none. ⁷ Then he said to his vine-dresser, Behold, for three years I have come and sought fruit on this fig-tree, and I have found none; cut it down; why does it occupy the ground unprofitably? ⁸ But he answered and said to him, Sir, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and throw in manure; ⁹ and it may bear fruit; but if not, after ward you shall cut it down.

¹ For the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. ² And when he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. ³ And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing in the market, idle; ⁴ and he said to them: Go you also into my vine yard, and whatever is right I will give you. ⁵ And they went. Again he went out about the sixth, and about the ninth hour, and did in like manner. ⁶ And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and said to them, Why do you stand here all the day idle? ⁷ They said to him: No man has hired us. He said to them: Go you also into the vineyard, and whatever is right you shall receive. ⁸ When the evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward: Call the laborers, and, beginning with the last, pay them their hire even to the first. ⁹ And when those came who had been hired about the eleventh hour, they received each one a denarius. ¹⁰ But when those came who had been hired first, they thought that they would receive more; and they received each one a denarius. ¹¹ And when they received it, they murmured against the master of the house, ¹² saying: These last have worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day, and the heat. ¹³ But he answered and said to one of them: Friend, I do you no in justice; did you not agree with me for a denarius? ¹⁴ Take what is yours, and go; I will give to this last even as to you. ¹⁵ Is it not allowed me to do what I will with my own? Or, is your eye envious, because I am good? ¹⁶ So the last shall be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.