Bible verses about "vineyards" | WPNT

³³ “Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to farmers and went on a journey. ³⁴ When vintage-time drew near he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruits. ³⁵ But the farmers took his servants—one they beat, one they killed, one they stoned. ³⁶ Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and they did to them likewise. ³⁷ So finally he sent his son to them saying, ‘They will respect my son’. ³⁸ But when the farmers saw the son they said among themselves: ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take possession of his inheritance.’ ³⁹ And taking him they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. ⁴⁰ Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?” ⁴¹ They say to Him: “He will miserably destroy those miserable men! And he will lease the vineyard to other farmers who will render to him the fruits in their seasons.”

⁶ Then He told this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. ⁷ So he said to the gardener: ‘Look, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down; just why must it waste the soil?’ ⁸ But in answer he said to him, ‘Sir, let it be this year also, until I dig around it and apply fertilizer, ⁹ in case it produces fruit—but if not, then cut it down’.”

¹ “For the kingdom of the heavens is like a certain landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. ² And agreeing with the workers for a denarius a day he sent them into his vineyard. ³ And going out about the third hour [9 a.m.] he saw others standing idle in the marketplace. ⁴ And he said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard and I will give you whatever is right.’ So off they went. ⁵ He went out again about the sixth hour, and the ninth, and did the same. ⁶ Now about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and he says to them, ‘Why have you stood here idle all day?’ ⁷ They say to him, ‘Because no one hired us’. He says to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right’. ⁸ So when evening had come the owner of the vineyard says to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wage, beginning at the last to the first’. ⁹ The eleventh hour ones came and each received a denarius. ¹⁰ So when the first ones came they supposed that they would receive more; yet each of them also received a denarius. ¹¹ When they received it they began grumbling against the landowner ¹² saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you made them equal to us who bore the burden and the heat of the day!’ ¹³ But in answer he said to one of them: ‘Friend, I am not wronging you. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? ¹⁴ Take what is yours and go. I wish to give to this last one just as to you. ¹⁵ Or isn’t it permissible for me to do what I want with what is mine? Is your eye evil because I am good?’ ¹⁶ Just so the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”