And at the proper time, he sent a servant to the vine-dressers, that he might receive from the vine-dressers of the fruit of the vineyard.

And they clothed him in purple; and having plaited a crown of thorn branches, they put it on him,

yet, when it is sown, it grows up, and becomes larger than all garden-plants, and sends out great branches, so that the birds of the air can roost under its shadow.

And many spread their mantles in the road, and others cut branches from the trees, and spread them in the road.

And ho began to speak to them in parables: A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and digged a wine-press, and built a tower, and let it out to vine-dressers, and went into another country.

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

What, then, will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those vine-dressers, and give his vineyard to others.

Verily I say to you, I shall drink no more of the fruit of the vine, till that day when I shall drink it new in the kingdom of God.