This Sunday's Gospel Reading
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Matthew 21:33-43
This reading follows the Catholic lectionary's schedule, but the text itself is the King James Version (public domain) -- not an official Catholic-approved translation.
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- 33Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
- 34And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
- 35And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
- 36Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
- 37But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.
- 38But 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.
- 39And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
- 40When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?
- 41They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
- 42Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
- 43Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.