At the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, in order to receive some of the produce of the vineyard from the vine-growers.

Peter remembring the tree, said, master, see the fig-tree, which you cursed, is quite withered.

Seeing at a distance a fig tree in leaf, He went to see if He would find anything on it. But He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

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.

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.

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.

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