THE PRECEPTS OE JESUS.
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publicans and the harlots believed him : and ye, when
ye had seen ?V, repented not afterward, that ye might
believe him. Hear another parable : There was a
•certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and
hedged it round about, and digged a wine-press in
it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen,
and went into a far country : and when the time of the
fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen,
that they might receive the fruits of it. And the hus-
bandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed
another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other
servants more than the first : and they did unto them
likewise. But last of all he sent unto them his son,
•saying, They will reverence my son. But when the
husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves,
This is the heir ; come, let us kill him, and let us seize
on his inheritance. And they caught him, and cast him
out of the vineyard, and slew him. When therefore the
lord of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those
husbandmen ? They say unto him, He will miserably
destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard
unto other hnsbandmen, which shall render him the
fruits in seasons. Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never
read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders
rejected, the same is become the head of the
■corner : this is the Lord's doing, and it is mar- ,
vellous in our eyes ? Therefore say I unto you, the
kingdom of God shall \ be taken fro'm you, and given
to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And
whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken :
hut on whomsover it shall fall, it will grind him to
powder. ,
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publicans and the harlots believed him : and ye, when
ye had seen ?V, repented not afterward, that ye might
believe him. Hear another parable : There was a
•certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and
hedged it round about, and digged a wine-press in
it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen,
and went into a far country : and when the time of the
fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen,
that they might receive the fruits of it. And the hus-
bandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed
another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other
servants more than the first : and they did unto them
likewise. But last of all he sent unto them his son,
•saying, They will reverence my son. But when the
husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves,
This is the heir ; come, let us kill him, and let us seize
on his inheritance. And they caught him, and cast him
out of the vineyard, and slew him. When therefore the
lord of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those
husbandmen ? They say unto him, He will miserably
destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard
unto other hnsbandmen, which shall render him the
fruits in seasons. Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never
read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders
rejected, the same is become the head of the
■corner : this is the Lord's doing, and it is mar- ,
vellous in our eyes ? Therefore say I unto you, the
kingdom of God shall \ be taken fro'm you, and given
to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And
whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken :
hut on whomsover it shall fall, it will grind him to
powder. ,