rsv - Luke:20:9-19

rsv@Luke:20:9 @ And he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country for a long while.

rsv@Luke:20:10 @ When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, that they should give him some of the fruit of the vineyard; but the tenants beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

rsv@Luke:20:11 @ And he sent another servant; him also they beat and treated shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed.

rsv@Luke:20:12 @ And he sent yet a third; this one they wounded and cast out.

rsv@Luke:20:13 @ Then the owner of the vineyard said, `What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; it may be they will respect him.'

rsv@Luke:20:14 @ But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, `This is the heir; let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'

rsv@Luke:20:15 @ And they cast him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

rsv@Luke:20:16 @ He will come and destroy those tenants, and give the vineyard to others." When they heard this, they said, "God forbid!"

rsv@Luke:20:17 @ But he looked at them and said, "What then is this that is written: `The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner'?

rsv@Luke:20:18 @ Every one who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; but when it falls on any one it will crush him."

rsv@Luke:20:19 @ The scribes and the chief priests tried to lay hands on him at that very hour, but they feared the people; for they perceived that he had told this parable against them.