Catholic Public Domain Version
"Then, when the time of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, so that they might receive its fruits. "
— Matthew 21:34, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.”
“And when the season of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, to receive his fruits. ”
“When the season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.”
“When the harvest time was near, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his portion of the crop.”
“And when the time of the fruits drew nigh, he sent his servants to the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits thereof.”
“And when the time for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the workmen, to get the fruit.”
“And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.”
Which of the two did the will of the father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them: “Amen I say to you, that tax collectors and prostitutes shall precede you, into the kingdom of God.
For John came to you in the way of justice, and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. Yet even after seeing this, you did not repent, so as to believe him.
Listen to another parable. There was a man, the father of a family, who planted a vineyard, and surrounded it with a hedge, and dug a press in it, and built a tower. And he loaned it out to farmers, and he set out to sojourn abroad.
Then, when the time of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, so that they might receive its fruits.
And the farmers apprehended his servants; they struck one, and killed another, and stoned yet another.
Again, he sent other servants, more than before; and they treated them similarly.
Then, at the very end, he sent his son to them, saying: ‘They will revere my son.’