Luke 20:9-19
Parable of the Vine-growers
9 aAnd He began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and rented it out to ▼▼ Or tenant farmers, also vv 10, 14, 16
vine-growers, and went on a journey for a long time. 10“At the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, so that they would give him some of the produce of the vineyard; but the vine-growers beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 11“And he proceeded to send another slave; and they beat him also and treated him shamefully and sent him away empty-handed. 12“And he proceeded to send a third; and this one also they wounded and cast out. 13“The ▼▼ Lit lord
owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will drespect him.’ 14“But when the vine-growers saw him, they reasoned with one another, saying, ‘This is the heir; let us kill him so that the inheritance will be ours.’ 15“So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What, then, will the ▼▼ Lit lord
owner of the vineyard do to them? 16“He will come and fdestroy these vine-growers and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard it, they said, g“May it never be!” 17But ▼▼ Lit He
Jesus looked at them and said, “What then is this that is written: ‘ i The stone which the builders rejected,This became j the chief corner stone’?
18 k“Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust.”
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19The scribes and the chief priests ltried to lay hands on Him that very hour, and they feared the people; for they understood that He spoke this parable against them.
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