Luke:20:1-19
rsv@Luke:20:1 @ One day, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up
rsv@Luke:20:2 @ and said to him, "Tell us by what authority you do these things, or who it is that gave you this authority."
rsv@Luke:20:3 @ He answered them, "I also will ask you a question; now tell me,
rsv@Luke:20:4 @ Was the baptism of John from heaven or from men?"
rsv@Luke:20:5 @ And they discussed it with one another, saying, "If we say, `From heaven,' he will say, `Why did you not believe him?'
rsv@Luke:20:6 @ But if we say, `From men,' all the people will stone us; for they are convinced that John was a prophet."
rsv@Luke:20:7 @ So they answered that they did not know whence it was.
rsv@Luke:20:8 @ And Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things."
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.
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