“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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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.
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12And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out.
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.
— Luke 20:14 —
15So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?
16He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.