Quotes about Tenants
Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon. He leased it to the tenants. For its fruit, each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver.
- Song of Solomon 8:11
Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
- Matthew 21:33
When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit.
- Matthew 21:34
But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
- Matthew 21:35
Again, he sent other servants, more than the first group. But the tenants did the same to them.
- Matthew 21:36
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.’
- Matthew 21:38
Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard returns, what will he do to those tenants?”
- Matthew 21:40
“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time.”
- Matthew 21:41
Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a wine vat, and built a watchtower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
- Mark 12:1
At harvest time, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard.
- Mark 12:2
But the tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’
- Mark 12:7
What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants, and will give the vineyard to others.
- Mark 12:9