Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
I said, ‘Surely you will fear me; you will accept correction. Then your dwelling would not be cut off according to all that I have appointed against you.’ But all the more they were eager to make all their deeds corrupt.
Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.”
Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’
He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?
No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the disaster that I intend to do to them, so that every one may turn from his evil way, and that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”
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