^7 (A)Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? ^(B)Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?

The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree

⁶ And he told this parable: “A man had ^(A)a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. ⁷ And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Look, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. ^(B)Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?’

^13 (A)And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for ^(B)it was not the season for figs.

The Wickedness of Judah

¹⁸ And another angel came out from the altar, ^(A)the angel who has authority over the fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, “Put in your sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, ^(B)for its grapes are ripe.” ¹⁹ So the angel swung his sickle across the earth and gathered the grape harvest of the earth and threw it into the great ^(C)winepress of the wrath of God. ²⁰ And ^(D)the winepress was trodden ^(E)outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress, as high as ^(F)a horse's bridle, for 1,600 stadia.^[a]

¹⁰ When the time came, he sent a servant^[a] to the tenants, so that ^(A)they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. ^(B)But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. ^11 (C)And ^(D)he sent another servant. But they also beat and ^(E)treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed. ^12 (F)And he sent yet a third. This one also they wounded and cast out. ¹³ Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my ^(G)beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’ ¹⁴ But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, ^(H)‘This is the heir. ^(I)Let us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.’ ¹⁵ And they ^(J)threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? ^16 (K)He will ^(L)come and destroy those tenants and ^(M)give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “Surely not!” ¹⁷ But he ^(N)looked directly at them and said, “What then is this that is written:

^18 (P)Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and when it falls ^(Q)on anyone, it will crush him.”