⁹Then Jesus told the people this story: “A man planted a vineyard and leased it to some farmers. Then he went away for a long time. ¹⁰When it was time for the grapes to be picked, he sent a servant to the farmers to get some of the grapes. But they beat the servant and sent him away empty-handed. ¹¹Then he sent another servant. They beat this servant also, and showed no respect for him, and sent him away empty-handed. ¹²So the man sent a third servant. The farmers wounded him and threw him out. ¹³The owner of the vineyard said, ‘What will I do now? I will send my son whom I love. Maybe they will respect him.’ ¹⁴But when the farmers saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This son will inherit the vineyard. If we kill him, it will be ours.’ ¹⁵So the farmers threw the son out of the vineyard and killed him.

“What will the owner of this vineyard do to them? ¹⁶He will come and kill those farmers and will give the vineyard to other farmers.”

When the people heard this story, they said, “Let this never happen!”

¹⁷But Jesus looked at them and said, “Then what does this verse mean:

‘The stone that the builders rejected

became the cornerstone’?

¹⁸Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken, and the person on whom it falls, that person will be crushed!”

¹⁹The teachers of the law and the leading priests wanted to arrest Jesus at once, because they knew the story was about them. But they were afraid of what the people would do.

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