Parables of
the Holy Bible

--Isaiah--

Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: (5:1)

And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. (5:2)

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. (5:3)

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? (5:4)

And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; [and] break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: (5:5)

And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. (5:6)

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. (5:7)

In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine. (27:2)

I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest [any] hurt it, I will keep it night and day. (27:3)

--Jeremiah--

Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. (12:10)

--Matthew--

For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man [that is] an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. (20:1)

And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. (20:2)

And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, (20:3)

And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. (20:4)

Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. (20:5)

And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? (20:6)

They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, [that] shall ye receive. (20:7)

So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them [their] hire, beginning from the last unto the first. (20:8)

And when they came that [were hired] about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. (20:9)

But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny. (20:10)

And when they had received [it], they murmured against the goodman of the house, (20:11)

Saying, These last have wrought [but] one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. (20:12)

But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny? (20:13)

Take [that] thine [is], and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. (20:14)

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? (20:15)

So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen. (20:16)

But what think ye? A [certain] man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. (21:28)

He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. (21:29)

And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I [go], sir: and went not. (21:30)

Whether of them twain did the will of [his] father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. (21:31)

Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: (21:33)

And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. (21:34)

And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. (21:35)

Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. (21:36)

But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. (21:37)

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. (21:38)

And they caught him, and cast [him] out of the vineyard, and slew [him]. (21:39)

When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? (21:40)

They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out [his] vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons. (21:41)

--Luke--

He spake also this parable; A certain [man] had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. (13:6)

Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? (13:7)

And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung [it]: (13:8)

And if it bear fruit, [well]: and if not, [then] after that thou shalt cut it down. (13:9)

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