³³Hear ye another parable. There was a man, an householder, who planted a vineyard and made a hedge round about it and dug in it a press and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a strange country.

³⁴And when the time of the fruits drew nigh, he sent his servants to the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits thereof.

³⁵And the husbandmen laying hands on his servants, beat one and killed another and stoned another.

³⁶Again he sent other servants, more than the former; and they did to them in like manner.

³⁷And last of all he sent to them his son, saying: They will reverence my son.

³⁸But the husbandmen seeing the son, said among themselves: This is the heir: come, let us kill him, and we shall have his inheritance.

³⁹And taking him, they cast him forth out of the vineyard and killed him.

⁴⁰When therefore the lord of the vineyard shall come, what will he do to those husbandmen?

⁴¹They say to him: He will bring those evil men to an evil end and let out his vineyard to other husbandmen that shall render him the fruit in due season.

⁴²Jesus saith to them: Have you never read in the Scriptures: The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? By the Lord this has been done; 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 yielding the fruits thereof.

⁴⁴And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.

⁴⁵And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they knew that he spoke of them.

⁴⁶And seeking to lay hands on him, they feared the multitudes, because they held him as a prophet.

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