Matthew 21:33-41

Wycliffe Bible

³³ Hear ye another parable. There was an husbandman, that planted a vineyard, and hedged it about, and delved a presser therein, and builded a tower [and built a tower], and hired it to earth-tillers, and went far in pilgrimage.

³⁴ And when the time of fruits approached, he sent his servants to the earth-tillers, to take fruits of it.^[a]

³⁵ And the earth-tillers took his servants, and they beat one, they slew another, and stoned another. [And, his servants taken, the earth-tillers beat one, they killed another, forsooth they stoned another.]

³⁶ Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and in like manner they did to them [and they did to them in like manner].

³⁷ And at the last he sent his son to them, and said [saying], They shall dread my son.

³⁸ But the earth-tillers, seeing the son, said within themselves, This is the heir; come ye, slay we him, and we shall have his heritage.

³⁹ And they took him, and casted [cast] him out of the vineyard, and slew him.

⁴⁰ Therefore when the lord of the vineyard shall come, what shall he do to those earth-tillers?

⁴¹ They say to him, He shall destroy evil the evil men, and he shall set to hire his vineyard to other earth-tillers, which shall yield to him fruit in their times.^[b]