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Matthew 21:34
And when the time for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the workmen, to get the fruit.

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Matthew 21:33
Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

Matthew 21:36
Again, he sent other servants more in number than the first: and they did the same to them.

Matthew 21:37
But after that he sent his son to them, saying, They will have respect for my son.

Matthew 21:38
But when the workmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death and take his heritage.

Matthew 21:39
And they took him and, driving him out of the vine-garden, put him to death.

Matthew 21:40
When, then, the lord of the vine-garden comes, what will he do to those workmen?

Matthew 21:41
They say to him, He will put those cruel men to a cruel death, and will let out the vine-garden to other workmen, who will give him the fruit when it is ready.

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Isaiah 5:1
Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:

Isaiah 5:2
And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.

Isaiah 5:4
Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?

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Luke 20:11
And he sent another servant, and they gave blows to him in the same way, and put shame on him, and sent him away with nothing.

Luke 20:12
And he sent a third, and they gave him wounds and put him out.

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