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Matthew 21:38
But when the husbandmen saw the sonne, they saide among themselues, This is the heire: come, let vs kill him, and let vs take his inheritance.
Matthew 21:38 · Geneva Bible
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Matthew 21:38 in other translations
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.
But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.’
But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and seize his inheritance.’
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In context
35 And ye husbandmen tooke his seruants and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
36 Againe hee sent other seruants, moe then the first: and they did the like vnto them.
37 But last of all he sent vnto them his owne sonne, saying, They will reuerence my sonne.
38 But when the husbandmen saw the sonne, they saide among themselues, This is the heire: come, let vs kill him, and let vs take his inheritance.
39 So they tooke him, and cast him out of the vineyarde, and slewe him.
40 When therefore the Lord of the vineyarde shall come, what will hee doe to those husbandmen?
41 They saide vnto him, Hee will cruelly destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard vnto other husbandmen, which shall deliuer him the fruites in their seasons.
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