9 Bible Verses about Metaphorical Vineyards
Most Relevant Verses
"For the Kingdom of Heaven is like to a man who was a householder, who went forth early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard;
and to them he said, 'Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you.' And they went away.
They say to him, 'Because no man hired us.' He says to them, 'Go ye also into the vineyard.'
"But what think ye? A man had two children; and to the first, he said, 'Child, go, work today in the vineyard.'
"And, evening having come, the lord of the vineyard says to his steward, 'Call the laborers, and pay them the wages, beginning from the last to the first.'
And, taking him, they cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him.
When, therefore, the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those husband-men?"
And He spake this parable: "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit thereon, and found none.
