³³“Listen^r to another parable:^s There was a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower.^t He leased it to tenant farmers and went away.^u ³⁴When the time came to harvest fruit, he sent his servants to the farmers to collect his fruit. ³⁵The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.^v ³⁶Again, he sent other servants, more than the first group, and they did the same to them. ³⁷Finally, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.

³⁸“But when the tenant farmers saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’^w ³⁹So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. ⁴⁰Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”

⁴¹“He will completely destroy those terrible men,” they told him, “and lease his vineyard to other farmers who will give him his fruit at the harvest.”^a

⁴²Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:

The stone that the builders rejected

has become the cornerstone.^A

This is what the Lord has done

and it is wonderful in our eyes?^B^b

⁴³Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruit.

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Footnotes

A the head of the corner

Cross references

r Mk 12:1–12; Lk 20:9–19
s Mt 13:3,34–36; 15:15; 22:1; 24:32
t Is 5:1–2; Lk 14:28
u Ps 80:8; Sg 8:11–12; Mt 25:14
v 2Ch 24:21; Neh 9:26; Mt 5:12; 23:34,37; Ac 7:52; 1Th 2:15; Heb 11:36–37
w Ps 2:8; Heb 1:2
a Mt 8:11; Ac 13:46; 18:6; 28:28
B Ps 118:22–23
b Ps 118:22–23; Ac 4:11; Rm 9:33; 1Pt 2:7