7. But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the owner's son. Come on, let's kill him, and his property will be ours!’
8. So they seized the son and killed him and threw his body out of the vineyard.
9. “What, then, will the owner of the vineyard do?” asked Jesus. “He will come and kill those tenants and hand the vineyard over to others.
10. Surely you have read this scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected as worthless turned out to be the most important of all.
11. This was done by the Lord; what a wonderful sight it is!’ ”
12. The Jewish leaders tried to arrest Jesus, because they knew that he had told this parable against them. But they were afraid of the crowd, so they left him and went away.
13. Some Pharisees and some members of Herod's party were sent to Jesus to trap him with questions.
14. They came to him and said, “Teacher, we know that you tell the truth, without worrying about what people think. You pay no attention to anyone's status, but teach the truth about God's will for people. Tell us, is it against our Law to pay taxes to the Roman Emperor? Should we pay them or not?”