Matthew 21:33-46 October
4, 2020
21:33 "Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a
vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a
watchtower. Then he leased it to tenants and went to another country.
21:34 When the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves to the tenants to
collect his produce.
21:35 But the tenants seized his slaves and beat one, killed another, and
stoned another.
21:36 Again he sent other slaves, more than the first; and they treated them in
the same way.
21:37 Finally he sent his son to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'
21:38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, 'This is the
heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.'
21:39 So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
21:40 Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those
tenants?"
21:41 They said to him, "He will put those wretches to a miserable death,
and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the
harvest time."
21:42 Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures: 'The
stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the
Lord's doing, and it is amazing in our eyes'?
21:43 Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and
given to a people that produces the fruits of the kingdom.
21:44 The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and it will
crush anyone on whom it falls."
21:45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they
realized that he was speaking about them.
21:46 They wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowds, because they
regarded him as a prophet.
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