Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labour in the Lord is not in vain.
‘Listen to another parable: There was a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence round it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. He leased it to tenant farmers and went away.
‘Yes,’ he said. When he went into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, ‘What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect tariffs or taxes? From their sons or from strangers? ’ ,