Matthew 21:34-41

New International Version

³⁴ When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants^(A) to the tenants to collect his fruit.

³⁵ “The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.^{(B) 36} Then he sent other servants^(C) to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way. ³⁷ Last of all, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.

³⁸ “But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir.^(D) Come, let’s kill him^(E) and take his inheritance.’^{(F) 39} So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

⁴⁰ “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”

⁴¹ “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,”^(G) they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants,^(H) who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.”