Vineyard: Parables of

I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. …

In that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard.

I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;

Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. …

But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first one and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’ …

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. …

Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it but did not find any. …