21:33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner 6 who planted a vineyard. 7 He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then 8 he leased it to tenant farmers 9 and went on a journey. 21:34 When the harvest time was near, he sent his slaves 10 to the tenants to collect his portion of the crop. 11 21:35 But the tenants seized his slaves, beat one, 12 killed another, and stoned another. 21:36 Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they treated them the same way. 21:37 Finally he sent his son to them, 13 saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 21:38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and get his inheritance!’ 21:39 So 14 they seized him, 15 threw him out of the vineyard, 16 and killed him. 21:40 Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 21:41 They said to him, “He will utterly destroy those evil men! Then he will lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his portion at the harvest.”
21:42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures:
‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. 17
This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? 18
21:43 For this reason I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people 19 who will produce its fruit. 21:44 The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.” 20 21:45 When 21 the chief priests and the Pharisees 22 heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them. 21:46 They wanted to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowds, because the crowds 23 regarded him as a prophet.