And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

at the time of vintage he sent his servant to the vine-dressers to receive the profits of his vineyard.

But those vine-growers said to one another, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’

now what will the master of the vineyard do? on his return, said they, he will destroy those vine-dressers, and give his vineyard to others.

Truly I say to you, I will take no more of the fruit of the vine till the day when I take it new in the kingdom of God.