5 See the note on the word “slave” in . This slave (along with the others) represent the prophets God sent to the nation, who were mistreated and rejected.
6 Grk “from the tenants,” but this is redundant in English, so the pronoun (“them”) was used in the translation.
7 Grk “from the fruits of the vineyard.”

In other versions

When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.

At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.

At harvest time he sent a servant to the farmers to collect some of the fruit of the vineyard from them.

At the time of the grape harvest, he sent one of his servants to collect his share of the crop.

And he sent a slave to the tenant farmers at the proper time, so that he could collect some of the fruit of the vineyard from the tenant farmers.

And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.

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