Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Agriculture » General references to » Called husbandmen
"Listen to another story. There was once an owner of an estate who planted a vineyard and built a fence around it, and hewed out a wine-vat in it, and built a tower, and rented it to tenant farmers, and then went abroad.
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At the proper time he sent a slave to the tenants to collect his part of the grape crop.
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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, "May it never be so!"
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The toiling farmer ought to be the first to share the crop.
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So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer keeps on waiting and waiting for the precious crop from his land; how he keeps up his patience over it until he gets the early and late rains,
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