34. When the fruit season drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his [share of the] fruit.
35. But the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
36. Again he sent other servants, more than the first time, and they treated them the same way.
37. Finally he sent his own son to them, saying, They will respect and give heed to my son.
38. But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, This is the heir; come on, let us kill him and have his inheritance.
39. And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
40. Now when the owner of the vineyard comes back, what will he do to those tenants?
41. They said to Him, He will put those wretches to a miserable death and rent the vineyard to other tenants of such a character that they will give him the fruits promptly in their season. [Isa. 5:1-7.]
42. Jesus asked them, Have you never read in the Scriptures: The very Stone which the builders rejected and threw away has become the Cornerstone; this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes? [Ps. 118:22, 23.]