For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.
Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man that sowed good seed in his field:
But what think ye? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to-day in the vineyard.
Hear another parable: There was a man that was a householder, who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country.