"At harvest-time he sent a slave to the vine-dressers, to ask them to give him a share of the crop; but the vine-dresser beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

He will come and destroy these vine-dressers, and will give his vine yard to others. And when they heard it, they said: Be it not so!

It is like a grain of mustard, which a man took and put into his garden; and it grew, and became a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged on its branches.

for I tell you, I shall not after today drink the product of the vine until the kingdom of God comes."

And he gave the people this story: A man made a vine-garden and gave the use of it to some field-workers and went into another country for a long time.

And he said to the vine-dresser, behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree, and find none: cut it down, why should it cumber the ground?

"But when the vine-dressers saw him, they reasoned together, saying. 'This is the heir. Let us kill him so that the inheritance may be ours.'