3. But they seized him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
4. Then he sent another servant to them. They threw stones at him, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.
5. Still he sent another, and they killed him. And there were many others. Some they beat, and some they killed.
6. “Having yet his one well-beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, ‘They will revere my son.’
7. “But those vinedressers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’
8. So they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.
9. “What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill the vinedressers and give the vineyard to others.
10. Have you not read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejectedhas become the cornerstone.
11. This was the Lord’s doing,and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”
12. Then they tried to seize Him, but feared the people, for they knew that He had spoken the parable against them. So they left Him and went their way.
13. They sent to Him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians to trap Him in His words.
14. When they came to Him, they said, “Teacher, we know that You are true and swayed by no man. For You do not regard the person of men, but truthfully teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?
15. Should we pay, or should we not pay?”But He, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why test Me? Bring Me a denarius that I may see it.”
16. They brought it, and He said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this?”They said to Him, “Caesar’s.”