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For the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to get workers into his vine-garden.

And when he had made an agreement with the workmen for a penny a day, he sent them into his vine-garden.

But he in answer said to one of them, Friend, I do you no wrong: did you not make an agreement with me for a penny?

See, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be given into the hands of the chief priests and scribes; and they will give orders for him to be put to death,

They say to him, We are able. He says to them, Truly, you will take of my cup: but to be seated at my right hand and at my left is not for me to give, but it is for those for whom my Father has made it ready.

Even as the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.

And Jesus, stopping, sent for them, and said, What would you have me do to you?

And he went away from them, and went out of the town to Bethany, and was there for the night.

Now in the morning when he was coming back to the town, he had a desire for food.

And seeing a fig-tree by the wayside, he came to it, and saw nothing on it but leaves only; and he said to it, Let there be no fruit from you from this time forward for ever. And straight away the fig-tree became dry and dead.

And all things, whatever you make request for in prayer, having faith, you will get.

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you had no faith in him, but the tax-farmers and the loose women had faith in him: and you, when you saw it, did not even have regret for your sins, so as to have faith in him.

Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

And when the time for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the workmen, to get the fruit.

But after that he sent his son to them, saying, They will have respect for my son.

For this reason I say to you, The kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.

For out of all to whom the good news has come, only a small number will get salvation.

And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, we see that you are true, and that you are teaching the true way of God, and have no fear of anyone, because you have no respect for a man's position.

Master, Moses said, If a man, at the time of his death, has no children, let his brother take his wife, and get a family for his brother;

For when they come back from the dead there are no husbands and wives, but they are as the angels in heaven.