husbandmen

¶ Heare another parable. There was a certaine house-holder, which planted a Uineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a wine-presse in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a farre countrey.

1611 marginal noteEsa. 5.1. iere. 2.21. mark. 12.1. luke 20.9.

And when the time of the fruite drew neere, he sent his seruants to the husbandmen, that they might receiue the fruits of it.

And the husbandmen tooke his seruants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

But when the husbandmen saw the sonne, they said among themselues, This is the heire, come, let vs kill him, and let vs sease on his inheritance.

1611 marginal noteChap. 26.3. iohn. 11.53.

When the Lord therefore of the Uineyard commeth, what will he doe vnto those husbandmen?

They say vnto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his Uineyard vnto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.