13. Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my own dear son; surely they will respect him!’
14. But when the tenants saw him, they said to one another, ‘This is the owner's son. Let's kill him, and his property will be ours!’
15. So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. “What, then, will the owner of the vineyard do to the tenants?” Jesus asked.
16. “He will come and kill those men, and hand the vineyard over to other tenants.”When the people heard this, they said, “Surely not!”
17. Jesus looked at them and asked, “What, then, does this scripture mean? ‘The stone which the builders rejected as worthless turned out to be the most important of all.’
18. Everyone who falls on that stone will be cut to pieces; and if that stone falls on someone, it will crush him to dust.”
19. The teachers of the Law and the chief priests tried to arrest Jesus on the spot, because they knew that he had told this parable against them; but they were afraid of the people.