At the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, so that they would give him some of the produce of the vineyard; but the vine-growers beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit.

And He began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and rented it out to vine-growers, and went on a journey for a long time.

But when the vine-growers saw him, they reasoned with one another, saying, ‘This is the heir; let us kill him so that the inheritance will be ours.’

He will come and destroy these vine-growers and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard it, they said, “May it never be!”

for I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine from now on until the kingdom of God comes.”