Matthew 21:33–41

Parable of the Vine-Growers

³³“Listen to another parable. ^aThere was a ¹landowner who ^bplanted a ^cvineyard and put a ^cwall around it and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and rented it out to ²vine-growers and ^dwent on a journey.

³⁴“Now when the ¹harvest time approached, he ^asent his slaves to the vine-growers to receive his fruit.

³⁵“And the vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third.

³⁶“Again he ^asent another group of slaves larger than the first; and they did the same thing to them.

³⁷“But afterward he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

³⁸“But when the vine-growers saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.’

³⁹“And they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

⁴⁰“Therefore when the ¹owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine-growers?”

⁴¹They ^*said to Him, “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, and ^awill rent out the vineyard to other vine-growers who will pay him the proceeds at the proper seasons.”