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Finally, he sent his son to them. 'They will respect my son,' he said.

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.'

"He will bring those wretches to a wretched end," they declared, "and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time."

"The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.

He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come.

But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business.

The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.

The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.

Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited were not worthy.

Then the Pharisees went out and plotted to trap Jesus in His words.

"Teacher," they said, "Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.

Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died without having children. So he left his wife to his brother.

When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.

Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples:

Woe to you, blind guides! You say, 'If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.'

And you say, 'If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.'

As Jesus left the temple and was walking away, His disciples came up to Him to point out its buildings.

Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house.

And let no one in the field return for his cloak.

And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.