Today's Readings
"The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;..."
33
'Listen to another parable. There was a man, a landowner, who planted a
vineyard; he fenced it round, dug a winepress in it and built a tower;
then he leased it to tenants and went abroad.
35 But the tenants seized his servants, thrashed one, killed another and stoned a third.
36 Next he sent some more servants, this time a larger number, and they dealt with them in the same way.
37 Finally he sent his son to them thinking, "They will respect my son."
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But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, "This is the
heir. Come on, let us kill him and take over his inheritance."
39 So they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
40 Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?'
41 They answered, 'He will bring those wretches to a wretched end and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will deliver the produce to him at the proper time.'
42
Jesus said to them, 'Have you never read in the scriptures: The stone
which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this is the
Lord's doing and we marvel at it?
43 'I tell you, then, that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.'
45 When they heard his parables, the chief priests and the scribes realised he was speaking about them,
46 but though they would have liked to arrest him they were afraid of the crowds, who looked on him as a prophet.
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