King James Version (KJV)
Matthew 21:38
“‹But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.›”
Verse in context — Matthew 21
36
‹Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.›
37
‹But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.›
38
‹But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.›
39
‹And they caught him, and cast› [him] ‹out of the vineyard, and slew› [him].
40
‹When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?›
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