Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Matthǽum (21,33-43)
In illo tempore: Dixit Iesus principibus sacerdotum et senioribus populi: Áliam parábolam audíte. Homo erat pater famílias, qui plantávit víneam et sæpem circúmdedit ei et fodit in ea tórcular et ædificávit turrim et locávit eam agrícolis et péregre proféctus est. Cum autem tempus frúctuum appropinquásset, misit servos suos ad agrícolas, ut accíperent fructus eíus. Et agrícolæ, apprehénsis servis eíus, álium cecidérunt, álium occidérunt, álium vero lapidavérunt. Íterum misit álios servos plures prióribus, et fecérunt illis simíliter. Novíssime autem misit ad eos fílium suum dicens: ‘Verebúntur fílium meum.’ Agrícolæ autem vidéntes fílium dixérunt intra se: ‘Hic est heres. Veníte, occidámus eum et habébimus hereditátem eíus.’ Et apprehénsum eum eiecérunt extra víneam et occidérunt. Cum ergo vénerit dóminus víneæ, quid fáciet agrícolis illis?” Aíunt illi: “Málos male perdet et víneam locábit áliis agrícolis, qui reddant ei fructum tempóribus suis.” Dicit illis Iésus: “Númquam legístis in Scriptúris: ‘Lápidem quem reprobavérunt ædificántes, hic factus est in caput ánguli; a Dómino factum est istud et est mirábile in óculis nostris’? Ídeo dico vobis quia auferétur a vobis regnum Dei et dábitur genti faciénti fructus eíus.
At that time, Jesus said to the leaders and elders of the people: Hear ye another parable. There was a man an householder, who planted a vineyard, and made a hedge round about it, and dug in it a press, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen; and went into a strange country. And when the time of the fruits drew nigh, he sent his servants to the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits thereof. And the husbandmen laying hands on his servants, beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again he sent other servants more than the former; and they did to them in like manner. And last of all he sent to them his son, saying: They will reverence my son. But the husbandmen seeing the son, said among themselves: This is the heir: come, let us kill him, and we shall have his inheritance. And taking him, they cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him. When therefore the lord of the vineyard shall come, what will he do to those husbandmen? They say to him: He will bring those evil men to an evil end; and will let out his vineyard to other husbandmen, that shall render him the fruit in due season. Jesus saith to them: Have you never read in the Scriptures: The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? By the Lord this has been done; and it is wonderful in our eyes. Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and shall be given to a nation yielding the fruits thereof.
Commentarium evangelii
Commentary on the Gospel
