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Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country.

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Now when vintage-time drew near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers, that they might receive its fruit.

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And the vinedressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another.

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Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and they did likewise to them.

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Then last of all he sent his son to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

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But when the vinedressers saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.'

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So they took him and cast him out of the vineyard and killed him.

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Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vinedressers?

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They said to Him, "He will destroy those wicked men miserably, and lease his vineyard to other vinedressers who will render to him the fruits in their seasons."

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Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the Scriptures: 'The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone. This was the LORD's doing, And it is marvelous in our eyes'?