020:010 At vintage-time he sent a servant to the vine-dressers,
for them to give him a share of the crop; but the vine-dressers
beat him cruelly and sent him away empty-handed.
020:011 Then he sent a second servant; and him too they beat and ill
treated and sent away empty-handed.
020:012 Then again he sent a third; and this one also they wounded
and drove away.
020:013 Then the owner of the vineyard said, "`What am I to do?
I will send my son—my dearly-loved son: they will
probably respect him.'
020:014 "But when the vine-dressers saw him, they discussed
the matter with one another, and said, "`This is the heir:
let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'
020:015 "So they turned him out of the vineyard and murdered him.
What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?
020:016 He will come and put these vine-dressers to death, and give
the vineyard to others." "God forbid!" exclaimed the hearers.
020:017 He looked at them and said, "What then does that mean which is written, "`The Stone which the builders rejected has been made the cornerstone'?
020:018 Every one who falls on that stone will be severely hurt, but on whomsoever it falls, he will be utterly crushed."
020:019 At this the Scribes and the High Priests wanted to lay hands on Him, then and there; only they were afraid of the people. For they saw that in this parable He had referred to them.