Matthew 21:33-46

Parable of the Wicked Tenants

Matthew 21:33-46

Parable of the Wicked Tenants

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`Hear ye another simile: There was a certain man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and did put a hedge round it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.
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`And when the season of the fruits came nigh, he sent his servants unto the husbandmen, to receive the fruits of it,
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and the husbandmen having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned.
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`Again he sent other servants more than the first, and they did to them in the same manner.
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`And at last he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son;
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and the husbandmen having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and may possess his inheritance;
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and having taken him, they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him;
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whenever therefore the lord of the vineyard may come, what will he do to these husbandmen?'
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They say to him, `Evil men--he will evilly destroy them, and the vineyard will give out to other husbandmen, who will give back to him the fruits in their seasons.'
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Jesus saith to them, `Did ye never read in the Writings, A stone that the builders disallowed, it became head of a corner; from the Lord hath this come to pass, and it is wonderful in our eyes.
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`Because of this I say to you, that the reign of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth its fruit;
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and he who is falling on this stone shall be broken, and on whomsoever it may fall it will crush him to pieces.'
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And the chief priests and the Pharisees having heard his similes, knew that of them he speaketh,
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and seeking to lay hold on him, they feared the multitudes, seeing they were holding him as a prophet.
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Where else Scripture says this.

  • Psalms 118:22

    A stone the builders refused Hath become head of a corner.
    from verse 42

  • Psalms 118:23

    From Jehovah hath this been, It is wonderful in our eyes,
    from verse 42

  • Isaiah 28:16

    Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: `Lo, I am laying a foundation in Zion, A stone--a tried stone, a corner stone precious, a settled foundation, He who is believing doth not make haste.
    from verse 42

  • Acts 4:11

    `This is the stone that was set at nought by you--the builders, that became head of a corner;
    from verse 42

  • 1 Peter 2:4

    to whom coming--a living stone--by men, indeed, having been disapproved of, but with God choice, precious,
    from verse 42

  • 1 Peter 2:8

    and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence--who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, --to which also they were set;
    from verse 42

  • Ephesians 2:20

    being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner- stone ,
    from verse 42

  • Romans 9:33

    according as it hath been written, `Lo, I place in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence; and every one who is believing thereon shall not be ashamed.'
    from verse 42

  • Isaiah 8:14

    And He hath been for a sanctuary, And for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of falling, To the two houses of Israel, For a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
    from verse 44

  • Isaiah 8:15

    And many among them have stumbled and fallen, And been broken, and snared, and captured.
    from verse 44

  • Isaiah 5:1

    Let me sing, I pray you, for my beloved, A song of my beloved as to his vineyard: My beloved hath a vineyard in a fruitful hill,
    from verse 33

  • Isaiah 5:4

    What--to do still to my vineyard, That I have not done in it! Wherefore, I waited to the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones!
    from verse 33
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