Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?
Luke 20:9 - English Standard Version 2016 And he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went into another country for a long while. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then He began to relate to the people this parable (this story to figuratively portray what He had to say): A man planted a vineyard and leased it to some vinedressers and went into another country for a long stay. [Isa. 5:1-7.] American Standard Version (1901) And he began to speak unto the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country for a long time. Common English Bible Jesus told the people this parable: “A certain man planted a vineyard, rented it to tenant farmers, and went on a trip for a long time. Catholic Public Domain Version Then he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, and he loaned it to settlers, and he was on a sojourn for a long time. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he began to speak to the people this parable: A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it out to husbandmen: and he was abroad for a long time. |
Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?
“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.
He said therefore, “A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return.
When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
“You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.