Moffatt(i)
33 Listen to another parable. There was a householder who planted a vineyard, put a fence round it, dug a wine-vat inside it, and built a watchtower: then he leased it to vinedressers and went abroad.
34 When the fruit-season was near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers to collect his fruit;
35 but the vinedressers took his servants and flogged one, killed another, and stoned a third.
36 Once more he sent some other servants, more than he had sent at first, and they did the same to them.
37 Afterwards he sent them his son; 'They will respect my son,' he said.
38 But when the vinedressers saw his son they said to themselves, 'Here is the heir; come on, let us kill him and seize his inheritance!'
39 So they took and threw him outside the vineyard and killed him.
40 Now, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to these vinedressers?"
41 They replied, "He will utterly destroy the wretches and lease the vineyard to other vinedressers who will give him the fruits in their season."
42 Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures, The stone that the builders rejected is the chief stone now of the corner: this is the doing of the Lord, and a wonder to our eyes?
43 I tell you therefore that the Realm of God will be taken from you and given to a nation that bears the fruits of the Realm.
44 [Everyone who falls on this stone will be shattered, and whoever it falls upon will be crushed.]"
45 When the high priests and Pharisees heard these parables they knew he was speaking about them;