Hear another parable: There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around it, and rigged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and let it out to vine-dressers, and went into another country.

And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the vine-dressers to receive the fruits of it.

And the vine-dressers took his servants, and scourged one, and killed another, and stoned another.

But the vine-dressers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and seize upon the inheritance.

Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine dressers?

They said to him: He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and let out his vineyard to other vine dressers, who will give him the fruits in their season.

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.

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.

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.

Then he said to his vine-dresser, Behold, for three years I have come and sought fruit on this fig-tree, and I have found none; cut it down; why does it occupy the ground unprofitably?

And he began to speak this parable to the people: A man planted a vineyard, and let it out to vine-dressers, and was absent from home for a long time.

And at the proper sea son, he sent a servant to those vine-dressers, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard. But the vine-dressers scourged him, and sent him away empty-handed.

But when the vine-dressers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying: This is the heir; come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.

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!

I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser.