Essential by Gary Rose

 

 For human beings, what can be more essential than matters of life and death, for who really wants to die? We do everything we can to preserve life and yet so many people deny that there is life beyond this life to their detriment. Each of the “FIVE ESSENTIAL TRUTHS” are correct and I thought to expand upon them by quoting from the Bible.

Life is short

James 4 ( World English Bible )

¹³ Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”

¹⁴ Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

Note: see also Jas 1:10; Job 7:6; Job 7:7; Job 9:25; Job 9:26; Job 14:1; Job 14:2; Ps 39:5; Ps 89:47; Ps 90:5-7; Ps 102:3; Isa 38:12; 1Pet 1:24; 1Pet 4:7; 1John 2:17

Sin has Consequences

James 1 ( WEB )

¹³ Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

¹⁴ But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

¹⁵ Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

Romans 1 ( WEB )

²⁰ For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

²¹ Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

²² Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

²³ and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

²⁴ Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

²⁵ who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

²⁶ For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

²⁷ Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.

²⁸ Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

²⁹ being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

³⁰ backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

³¹ without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

³² who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

Romans 3 ( WEB )

²³ for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

Note: see also Rom 3:9; Rom 3:19; Rom 2:1-16; Rom 11:32; Eccl 7:20; Gal 3:22; 1John 1:8-10

Death is inevitable

Genesis 3 ( WEB )

¹ Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’”

² The woman said to the serpent, “Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,

³ but of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’”

⁴ The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t surely die,

⁵ for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Genesis 5 ( WEB )

⁵ All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.

⁶ Seth lived one hundred five years, and became the father of Enosh.

⁷ Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

⁸ All the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, then he died.

⁹ Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan.

¹⁰ Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan, eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

¹¹ All the days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, then he died.

¹² Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of Mahalalel.

¹³ Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of sons and daughters

¹⁴ and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died.

¹⁵ Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Jared.

¹⁶ Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

¹⁷ All the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.

¹⁸ Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, and became the father of Enoch.

¹⁹ Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

²⁰ All the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.

²¹ Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah.

²² Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

²³ All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years.

²⁴ Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.

²⁵ Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and became the father of Lamech.

²⁶ Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

²⁷ All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.

²⁸ Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of a son,

²⁹ and he named him Noah, saying, “This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”

³⁰ Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

³¹ All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.

HELL ( Gehenna ) is REAL

Matthew 23 ( WEB )

³³ You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

Matthew 13 ( WEB )

³⁷ He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,

³⁸ the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.

³⁹ The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

⁴⁰ As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.

⁴¹ The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity,

⁴² and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 10:28 ( WEB )

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

Matthew 18 ( WEB )

⁹ If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.

Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven

John 14 ( WEB )

⁶ Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

1 Corinthians 15 ( WEB )

¹ Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

² by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

³ For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

⁴ that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

⁵ and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

⁶ Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.

⁷ Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles,

⁸ and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

Note: see also Matt 26:28; Rom 3:25; Rom 4:25; 2Cor 5:21; Gal 1:4; Gal 3:13; Eph 1:7; Eph 5:2 Heb 10:11; Heb 10:12; 1Pet 2:24; 1Pet 3:18; 1John 2:2; Rev 1:5

That life is short and death is inevitable are statement that almost every human being on the planet would agree with, but concerning sin, hell ( Gehenna ), heaven and Jesus some take issue with.

Everything the chart says is true. I can say this because it is a historical fact that Jesus lived, died and rose again. Don’t believe this? There were 500 plus witnesses; that should be enough to satisfy anyone.

Common sense will tell you that if someone shared with you a way to live after this life, you would take it. Read the passages (and the many references if you have time) and take what they say at face value. Really, what have you got to lose? There is hope, because of Jesus!

Bible Reading for February 10 and 11 by Gary Rose

Bible Reading for February 10 and 11

World  English  Bible

  

Feb. 10

Genesis 41

Gen 41:1 It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river.

Gen 41:2 Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.

Gen 41:3 Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.

Gen 41:4 The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.

Gen 41:5 He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.

Gen 41:6 Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

Gen 41:7 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.

Gen 41:8 It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt's magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

Gen 41:9 Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my faults today.

Gen 41:10 Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.

Gen 41:11 We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

Gen 41:12 There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.

Gen 41:13 It happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: he restored me to my office, and he hanged him."

Gen 41:14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.

Gen 41:15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."

Gen 41:16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace."

Gen 41:17 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river:

Gen 41:18 and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass,

Gen 41:19 and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.

Gen 41:20 The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,

Gen 41:21 and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

Gen 41:22 I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good:

Gen 41:23 and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

Gen 41:24 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me."

Gen 41:25 Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.

Gen 41:26 The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.

Gen 41:27 The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.

Gen 41:28 That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh.

Gen 41:29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.

Gen 41:30 There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,

Gen 41:31 and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.

Gen 41:32 The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

Gen 41:33 "Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.

Gen 41:34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt's produce in the seven plenteous years.

Gen 41:35 Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

Gen 41:36 The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine."

Gen 41:37 The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

Gen 41:38 Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?"

Gen 41:39 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.

Gen 41:40 You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you."

Gen 41:41 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."

Gen 41:42 Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck,

Gen 41:43 and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" He set him over all the land of Egypt.

Gen 41:44 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."

Gen 41:45 Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

Gen 41:46 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

Gen 41:47 In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth abundantly.

Gen 41:48 He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.

Gen 41:49 Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.

Gen 41:50 To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.

Gen 41:51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house."

Gen 41:52 The name of the second, he called Ephraim: "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."

Gen 41:53 The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.

Gen 41:54 The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

Gen 41:55 When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."

Gen 41:56 The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

Gen 41:57 All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth. 

 

Feb. 11

Genesis 42

Gen 42:1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"

Gen 42:2 He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."

Gen 42:3 Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

Gen 42:4 But Jacob didn't send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him."

Gen 42:5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

Gen 42:6 Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

Gen 42:7 Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."

Gen 42:8 Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn't recognize him.

Gen 42:9 Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land."

Gen 42:10 They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.

Gen 42:11 We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies."

Gen 42:12 He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land."

Gen 42:13 They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."

Gen 42:14 Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies.'

Gen 42:15 By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.

Gen 42:16 Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies."

Gen 42:17 He put them all together into custody for three days.

Gen 42:18 Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.

Gen 42:19 If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.

Gen 42:20 Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die." They did so.

Gen 42:21 They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us."

Gen 42:22 Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."

Gen 42:23 They didn't know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

Gen 42:24 He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.

Gen 42:25 Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.

Gen 42:26 They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.

Gen 42:27 As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.

Gen 42:28 He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"

Gen 42:29 They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

Gen 42:30 "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.

Gen 42:31 We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies.

Gen 42:32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'

Gen 42:33 The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.

Gen 42:34 Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.' "

Gen 42:35 It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

Gen 42:36 Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."

Gen 42:37 Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I don't bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again."

Gen 42:38 He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol." 

 

Feb. 10, 11

Matthew 21

Mat 21:1 When they drew near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

Mat 21:2 saying to them, "Go into the village that is opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them, and bring them to me.

Mat 21:3 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, 'The Lord needs them,' and immediately he will send them."

Mat 21:4 All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,

Mat 21:5 "Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey."

Mat 21:6 The disciples went, and did just as Jesus commanded them,

Mat 21:7 and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their clothes on them; and he sat on them.

Mat 21:8 A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees, and spread them on the road.

Mat 21:9 The multitudes who went before him, and who followed kept shouting, "Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"

Mat 21:10 When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, "Who is this?"

Mat 21:11 The multitudes said, "This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee."

Mat 21:12 Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers' tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.

Mat 21:13 He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!"

Mat 21:14 The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

Mat 21:15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the son of David!" they were indignant,

Mat 21:16 and said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?' "

Mat 21:17 He left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there.

Mat 21:18 Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.

Mat 21:19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away.

Mat 21:20 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree immediately wither away?"

Mat 21:21 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don't doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it would be done.

Mat 21:22 All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."

Mat 21:23 When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, "By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?"

Mat 21:24 Jesus answered them, "I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things.

Mat 21:25 The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?" They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?'

Mat 21:26 But if we say, 'From men,' we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet."

Mat 21:27 They answered Jesus, and said, "We don't know." He also said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

Mat 21:28 But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, 'Son, go work today in my vineyard.'

Mat 21:29 He answered, 'I will not,' but afterward he changed his mind, and went.

Mat 21:30 He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, 'I go, sir,' but he didn't go.

Mat 21:31 Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to him, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you.

Mat 21:32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn't believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn't even repent afterward, that you might believe him.

Mat 21:33 "Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

Mat 21:34 When the season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.

Mat 21:35 The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

Mat 21:36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way.

Mat 21:37 But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

Mat 21:38 But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and seize his inheritance.'

Mat 21:39 So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

Mat 21:40 When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?"

Mat 21:41 They told him, "He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season."

Mat 21:42 Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?'

Mat 21:43 "Therefore I tell you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation bringing forth its fruit.

Mat 21:44 He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whoever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust."

Mat 21:45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.

Mat 21:46 When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.