Bible Verses About Vineyard

and to these he said, Go ye--also ye--to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous I will give you;

and they went away. `Again, having gone forth about the sixth and the ninth hour, he did in like manner.

And about the eleventh hour, having gone forth, he found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why here have ye stood all the day idle?

they say to him, Because no one did hire us; he saith to them, Go ye--ye also--to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous ye shall receive.

`And evening having come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the workmen, and pay them the reward, having begun from the last--unto the first.

And they of about the eleventh hour having come, did receive each a denary.

`And the first having come, did suppose that they shall receive more, and they received, they also, each a denary,

and having received it , they were murmuring against the householder, saying,

that These, the last, wrought one hour, and thou didst make them equal to us, who were bearing the burden of the day--and the heat.

`And he answering said to one of them, Comrade, I do no unrighteousness to thee; for a denary didst not thou agree with me?

take that which is thine, and go; and I will to give to this, the last, also as to thee;

is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good?

So the last shall be first, and the first last, for many are called, and few chosen.'

`And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.'

And he answering said, `I will not,' but at last, having repented, he went.

`And having come to the second, he said in the same manner, and he answering said, I go , sir, and went not;

which of the two did the will of the father?' They say to him, `The first.' Jesus saith to them, `Verily I say to you, that the tax-gatherers and the harlots do go before you into the reign of God,

`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.

`And when the season of the fruits came nigh, he sent his servants unto the husbandmen, to receive the fruits of it,

and the husbandmen having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned.

`Again he sent other servants more than the first, and they did to them in the same manner.

`And at last he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son;

and the husbandmen having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and may possess his inheritance;

and having taken him, they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him;

whenever therefore the lord of the vineyard may come, what will he do to these husbandmen?'