web@Luke:20:9 @ He began to tell the people this parable. "A {NU (in brackets) and TR add "certain"}man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.
web@Luke:20:10 @ At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.
web@Luke:20:11 @ He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
web@Luke:20:12 @ He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out.
web@Luke:20:13 @ The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.'
web@Luke:20:14 @ "But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'
web@Luke:20:15 @ They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?
web@Luke:20:16 @ He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"
web@Luke:20:17 @ But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the chief cornerstone?' {Psalm strkjv@118:22}
web@Luke:20:18 @ Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust."
web@Luke:20:19 @ The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people--for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.