Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.\par
{\i It is} as {\i when} a man, sojourning in another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, to each one his work, commanded also the porter to watch.
Hear another parable: There was a man that was a householder, who {\b 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.
He saith, Yea. And when he came into the house, Jesus spake first to him, saying, {\cf6 What thinkest thou, Simon? the kings of the earth, from whom do they receive toll or tribute? from their sons, or from strangers?}