Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Agriculture » General references to » Called husbandmen
"Listen to another figure. There was a land owner who planted a vineyard and fenced it in, and hewed out a wine-vat in it, and built a watch-tower, and leased it to tenants, and left the neighborhood.
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At the proper time he sent a slave to the tenants to get from them a share of the vintage.
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He will come and put those tenants to death, and give the vineyard to others." When they heard this they said, "Heaven forbid!"
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The farmer who does the work ought to be the first to have some of the produce.
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So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer has to wait for the precious crop from the ground, and be patient with it, until it gets the early and the late rains.
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