Renting
Renting in Scripture means letting land to people who work it and pay in fruit. Jesus tells of a householder who plants a vineyard, “let it out to husbandmen,” and goes away. At harvest he sends servants to collect his share, and the tenants beat and kill them, then kill his son to seize the inheritance. The parable in Matthew 21:33-41 is plainly about more than farming: it asks what we do with what has been entrusted to us. Elsewhere, in Acts 28:30, Paul lives two years in his own rented house and welcomes all who come. Start with the parable.
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Matthew
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.
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.
And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?
They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
Acts
And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,