3. He answered them, “I will also ask you a question, and you tell me:
4. John’s baptism – was it from heaven or from people?”
5. So they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’
6. But if we say, ‘From people,’ all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”
7. So they replied that they did not know where it came from.
8. Then Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by whose authority I do these things.”
9. Then he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time.
10. When harvest time came, he sent a slave to the tenants so that they would give him his portion of the crop. However, the tenants beat his slave and sent him away empty-handed.
11. So he sent another slave. They beat this one too, treated him outrageously, and sent him away empty-handed.
12. So he sent still a third. They even wounded this one, and threw him out.
13. Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I will send my one dear son; perhaps they will respect him.’