Living_Oracles(i)
9 Then he spoke to the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard, and farmed it out, and having traveled, continued long abroad.
10 The season being come, he sent a servant to the husbandmen, to receive of the produce of the vineyard; but they beat him, and sent him back empty.
11 Afterward, he sent another servant, whom they, having beaten, and used shamefully, also sent away empty.
12 He afterward dispatched a third to them. Him, likewise, they wounded and drove away.
13 Then the proprietor of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; they will surely reverence him, when they see him.
14 But when then husbandmen saw him, they reasoned thus among themselves, This is the heir, come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be our own.
15 And having thrust him out of the vineyard, they killed him. What, therefore, will the proprietor of the vineyard do to them?
16 He will come and destroy those husbandmen, and give the vineyard to others. And some of his hearers said, God forbid.
17 Jesus, looking on them, said, What, then, means that expression of scripture, "A stone which the builders rejected, is made the head of the corner.
18 Whosoever shall fall upon that stone, shall be bruised; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will crush him to pieces"?