Matthew 21:33–46 · BSB
21:33
Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
21:34
When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit.
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21:35
But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
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Again, he sent other servants, more than the first group. But the tenants did the same to them.
21:37
Finally, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.
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But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.’
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So they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
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Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard returns, what will he do to those tenants?”
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“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time.”
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Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
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Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.
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He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”
21:45
When the chief priests and Pharisees heard His parables, they knew that Jesus was speaking about them.
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Although they wanted to arrest Him, they were afraid of the crowds, because the people regarded Him as a prophet.
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