And he began to speak to them in parables: A certain man planted a vineyard and made a hedge about it and dug a place for the winefat and built a tower and let it to husbandmen: and went into a far country.

²And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant to receive of the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.

³Who, having laid hands on him, beat and sent him away empty.

⁴And again he sent to them another servant: and him they wounded in the head and used him reproachfully.

⁵And again he sent another, and him they killed: and many others, of whom some they beat, and others they killed.

⁶Therefore, having yet one son, most dear to him, he also sent him unto them last of all, saying: They will reverence my son.

⁷But the husbandmen said one to another: This is the heir. Come let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours.

⁸And laying hold on him, they killed him and cast him out of the vineyard.

⁹What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those husbandmen and will give the vineyard to others.

¹⁰And have you not read this scripture, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner:

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