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Matthew 21:38

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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.

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  1. Matthew 21:36

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

  2. Matthew 21:37

    But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.

  3. Matthew 21:39

    And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.

  4. Matthew 21:40

    When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.