Matthew 13:18

Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”

When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

“It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.

Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”

You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

Say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears will tingle.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, yes, the former dominion will come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field.”

Peter answered him, “Explain the parable to us.”

But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’

“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses’ seat.

Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

Jesus told it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” and his disciples heard it.

They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.

He said therefore, “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;