Bible Verses About Vineyards

After agreeing with the workers on a wage of one denarius, [the standard daily wage,] he sent them off to his vineyard.

He went into the Temple area; and as he was teaching, the head cohanim and the elders of the people approached him and demanded, "What s'mikhah do you have that authorizes you to do these things? And who gave you this s'mikhah?"

"But give me your opinion: a man had two sons. He went to the first and said, `Son, go and work today in the vineyard.'

He answered, `I don't want to'; but later he changed his mind and went.

The father went to his other son and said the same thing. This one answered, `I will, sir'; but he didn't go.

"Now listen to another parable. There was a farmer who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower; then he rented it to tenants and left.

When harvest-time came, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the crop.

Did you ever hear of a soldier paying his own expenses? or of a farmer planting a vineyard without eating its grapes? Who shepherds a flock without drinking some of the milk?