Hear another parable: A certain man was master of a house, who planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around it, and digged in it a winepress, and let it out to farmers, and went abroad:

And be began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and put a fence round, and digged a winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.

He is like to a man building a house, who digged, and deepened, and set the foundation upon the rock: and there having been an overflow, the river dashed against that house, and was not able to move it: for it was founded upon the rock.

Lord, thy prophets have they killed, and dug down thine altars; and I alone was left, and they seek my soul.

Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal:

But treasure to you treasures in heaven, where neither moth, nor gnawing destroy; and where thieves dig not through, nor steal.

And he having received one, having departed, dug in the earth, and concealed his lord's silver.

And he having answered says to him, Lord, let it go also this year, till I shall dig round it, and cast dung:

And the steward said in himself, What shall I do? for my lord takes away the stewardship from me: I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.

And he opened the well of the bottomless pit; and a smoke went up out of the well, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun was darkened, and the air, from the smoke of the well.

To keep off from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and strangulation, and harlotry: from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

So that he marrying does well; and he not marrying does better.

And now he has attained a more distinguished office, in how much also he is mediator of a better covenant, which was legislated upon better promises.