Luke 20:9-18 Then he went on to give the people this illustration: "A man once planted a vineyard, and leased it to tenants, and went away for along absence.

Goodspeed⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁹ Then he went on to give the people this illustration: "A man once planted a vineyard, and leased it to tenants, and went away for along absence. ¹⁰ And at the proper time he sent a slave to the tenants to have them give him a share of the vintage, but the tenants beat him, and sent him back empty-handed. ¹¹ And again he sent another slave, and they beat him also and mistreated him and sent him back empty-handed. ¹² And again he sent a third, but they wounded him too, and threw him outside. ¹³ Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What can I do? I will send them my dear son; perhaps they will respect him.' ¹⁴ But when the tenants saw him, they argued with one another, 'This is his heir! Let us kill him, so that the property will belong to us!' ¹⁵ So they drove him out of the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them? ¹⁶ He will come and put those tenants to death, and give the vineyard to others." When they heard this they said, "Heaven forbid!" ¹⁷ He looked at them and said, "Then what does this saying of Scripture mean, "'That stone which the builders rejected Has become the cornerstone'? ¹⁸ Whoever falls on that stone will be shattered, but whoever it falls upon will be pulverized."