{"id":622,"date":"2007-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/contentfeeds\/2007\/12\/gospel-reading-for-thursday-de.html"},"modified":"2007-12-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T00:00:00","slug":"gospel-reading-for-thursday-de","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2007\/12\/gospel-reading-for-thursday-de.html","title":{"rendered":"Gospel Reading for Thursday, December 6, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew 21:33-46
\n33 \u201cListen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. 34 When the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his produce. 35 But the tenants seized his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again he sent other slaves, more than the first; and they treated them in the same way. 37 Finally he sent his son to them, saying, \u2018They will respect my son.\u2019 38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, \u2018This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.\u2019 39 So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. 40 Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?\u201d 41 They said to him, \u201cHe will put those wretches to a miserable death, and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the harvest time.\u201d
\n42 Jesus said to them, \u201cHave you never read in the scriptures:<\/p>\n

\u2018The stone that the builders rejected
\nhas become the cornerstone;
\nthis was the Lord’s doing,
\nand it is amazing in our eyes\u2019?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

43 Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces the fruits of the kingdom. 44 The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.\u201d
\n45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them. 46 They wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowds, because they regarded him as a prophet.
\nFrom the New Revised Standard Version<\/a>. Reprinted with permission from HarperBibles.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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