021:034 When vintage-time approached, he sent his servants to the
vine-dressers to receive his share of the grapes;
021:035 but the vine-dressers seized the servants, and one they
cruelly beat, one they killed, one they pelted with stones.
021:036 Again he sent another party of servants more numerous than the first;
and these they treated in the same manner.
021:037 Later still he sent to them his son, saying, "`They will
respect my son.'
021:038 "But the vine-dressers, when they saw the son, said to one another, "`Here is the heir: come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.'
021:039 "So they seized him, dragged him out of the vineyard,
and killed him.
021:040 When then the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do
to those vine-dressers?"
021:041 "He will put the wretches to a wretched death," was the reply, "and will entrust the vineyard to other vine-dressers who will render the produce to him at the vintage season."
021:042 "Have you never read in the Scriptures," said Jesus, "`The Stone which the builders rejected has been made the Cornerstone: this Cornerstone came from the Lord, and is wonderful in our eyes'?
021:043 "That, I tell you, is the reason why the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and given to a nation that will exhibit the power of it.