²⁷And they came again to Jerusalem. And as^* he was walking in the temple courts,^* the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came up to him ²⁸and said to him, “By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority that you do these things?” ²⁹So Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question. Answer me and I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. ³⁰The baptism of John—was it from heaven or from men? Answer me!” ³¹And they began to discuss^j this^* with one another, saying, “What should we say?^k If we say ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’ ³²But if we say, ‘From men’ ”—they were afraid of the crowd, because they all looked upon John as truly a prophet.^l ³³And they replied to Jesus saying, “We do not know.” And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”

The Parable of the Tenant Farmers in the Vineyard

12And he began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard, and put a fence around it, and dug a trough for the winepress, and built a watchtower, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey. ²And he sent a slave to the tenant farmers at the proper time, so that he could collect some of the fruit of the vineyard from the tenant farmers. ³And they seized him and^* beat him^* and sent him^* away empty-handed. ⁴And again he sent to them another slave, and that one they struck on the head and dishonored. ⁵And he sent another, and that one they killed. And he sent^* many others, some of whom they beat and some of whom they killed. ⁶He had one more, a beloved son. Last of all he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ ⁷But those tenant farmers said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and the inheritance will be ours!’ ⁸And they seized and^* killed him and threw him out of the vineyard. ⁹What^a will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenant farmers and give the vineyard to others. ¹⁰Have you not read this scripture:

‘The stone which the builders rejected,

this has become the cornerstone.^b

¹¹This came about from the Lord,

and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”^c

¹²And they were seeking to arrest him, and they were afraid of the crowd, because they knew that he had told the parable with reference to them. And they left him and^* went away.

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Footnotes

*Here “as” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was walking”)
*Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
jThe imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to discuss”)
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
kSome manuscripts omit “What should we say?”
lLiterally “that he was truly a prophet”
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“seized”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*The words “he sent” are not in the Greek text, but are an implied repetition from earlier in the verse
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“seized”) has been translated as a finite verb
aSome manuscripts have “What then”
bLiterally “the head of the corner”
cA quotation from Ps 118:22–23
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“left”) has been translated as a finite verb