“He proposed another parable. "A certain man, a householder, planted his vineyard." This is like what the psalmist said, "You brought a vine out of Egypt, you drove out the nations and planted it." He protected it with a hedge, the law, and prepared a pit in it for the winepresses, the altar, and built a tower there, t…”
Ephrem the Syrian, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON TATIAN'S DIATESSARON 16.19
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12And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out.
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10And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.
11And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
— Luke 20:12 —
13Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him.
14But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.