³³Hear another parable: There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country. ³⁴But when the time of fruit drew near, he sent his bondmen to the husbandmen to receive his fruits. ³⁵And the husbandmen took his bondmen, and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. ³⁶Again he sent other bondmen more than the first, and they did to them in like manner. ³⁷And at last he sent to them his son, saying, They will have respect for my son. ³⁸But the husbandmen, seeing the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him and possess his inheritance. ³⁹And they took him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him. ⁴⁰When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what shall he do to those husbandmen? ⁴¹They say to him, He will miserably destroy those evil men, and let out the vineyard to other husbandmen, who shall render him the fruits in their seasons. ⁴²Jesus says to them, Have ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which they that builded rejected, this has become the corner-stone: this is of the Lord, and it is wonderful in our eyes? ⁴³Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and shall be given to a nation producing the fruits of it. ⁴⁴And he that falls on this stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder. ⁴⁵And the chief priests and the Pharisees, having heard his parables, knew that he spoke about them. ⁴⁶And seeking to lay hold of him, they were afraid of the crowds, because they held him for a prophet.

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