Matthew(i)
33 Herken another similitude. There was a certayne housholder, which planted a vyneyard, and hedged it rounde aboute and made a wynepresse in it, and buylt a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a straunge countrey.
34 And when the tyme of the frute drewe neare, he sente hys seruauntes to the husbandmen to receyue the fruytes of it.
35 And the husbandmen caughte hys seruauntes and bet one, kylled another, and stoned another.
36 Agayne he sent other seruauntes, mo then the fyrste, and they serued them lykewyse.
37 But last of all, he sent vnto them hys owne sonne, sayinge: they wyll feare my sonne.
38 But when the husbandmen sawe the sonne, they sayde amonge them selues. Thys is the heyre: come let vs kyll hym, and let vs take hys enheritaunce to oure selues.
39 And they caughte hym and thruste him out of the vyneyard, and slewe hym.
40 When the Lorde of the vyneyard cometh, what wyll he do with those husbandmen?
41 They sayed vnto hym: he wyll cruellye destroye those euyll persons, and wyll let out hys vyneyarde vnto other husbandmen, which shall delyuer hym the frute at tymes conuenient.
42 Iesus sayde vnto them: dyd ye neuer reade in the scriptures. The stone which the buylders refused, the same is set in the principall parte of the corner: thys was the Lordes doynge, and it is meruelous in oure eyes.
43 Therfore saye I vnto you the kyngdome of God shalbe taken from you, and shalbe gyuen to the gentyles, whiche shall brynge forth the frutes of it.
44 And whosoeuer shall fall ou thys stone, he shalbe broken, but on whosoeuer it shall fall vpon, it wyll grynde hym to powder.
45 And when the chiefe priestes and pharyses hearde these similitudes, they perceyued that he spake of them.
46 And they wente aboute to laye handes on hym, but they feared the people, because they toke hym as a Prophete.