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Heare another parable. There was a certaine house-holder, which planted a Uineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a wine-presse in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a farre countrey.

And when the time of the fruite drew neere, he sent his seruants to the husbandmen, that they might receiue the fruits of it.

And the husbandmen tooke his seruants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

Againe hee sent other seruants, moe then the first, and they did vnto them likewise.

But last of all, he sent vnto them his sonne, saying, They will reuerence my sonne.

But when the husbandmen saw the sonne, they said among themselues, This is the heire, come, let vs kill him, and let vs sease on his inheritance.

And they caught him, and cast him out of the Uineyard, and slew him.

When the Lord therefore of the Uineyard commeth, what will he doe vnto those husbandmen?

They say vnto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his Uineyard vnto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

Iesus saith vnto them, Did ye neuer reade in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders reiected, the same is become the head of the corner? This is the Lords doing, and it is marueilous in our eyes.

Therefore say I vnto you, the kingdome of God shall be taken from you, and giuen to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

And whosoeuer shall fall on this stone, shalbe broken: but on whom soeuer it shall fall, it will grinde him to powder.

And when the chiefe Priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceiued that he spake of them.

But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they tooke him for a Prophet.