Matthew 21:34
When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruit.
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Matthew 21:34
When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruit.
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Matthew 21:33
“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.
Matthew 21:36
Again, he sent other servants more than the first; and they treated them the same way.
Matthew 21:37
But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
Matthew 21:38
But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and seize his inheritance.’
Matthew 21:39
So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard, then killed him.
Matthew 21:40
When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”
Matthew 21:41
They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers who will give him the fruit in its season.”
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Isaiah 5:1
Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
Isaiah 5:2
He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
Isaiah 5:4
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
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Luke 20:11
He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
Luke 20:12
He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him and threw him out.
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