The Parable of the Tenants
1 nAnd he began to speak to them in parables. o“A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and pwent into another country. 2 When the season came, he sent a servant1 to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. 3 And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 4 Again he sent to them another servant, and they struck him on the head and treated him shamefully. 5 And he sent another, and him they qkilled. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed. 6 He had still one other, a rbeloved son. sFinally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 7 But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the their. Come, let us ukill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ 8 And they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard. 9 What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and vgive the vineyard to others. 10 Have you not read this Scripture:
w“‘The stone that the builders rejected
11 this was the Lord’s doing,
and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”
12 And they were seeking to arrest him but feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they left him and went away.
The Parable of the Wicked Tenants
9 iAnd he began to tell the people this parable: j“A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and kwent into another country for a long while. 10 When the time came, he sent a servant1 to the tenants, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. lBut the tenants mbeat him and sent him away empty-handed. 11 And he sent another servant. But they also beat and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed. 12 And he sent yet a third. This one also they wounded and cast out. 13 nThen the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my obeloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’ 14 But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, ‘This is the pheir. Let us qkill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.’ 15 And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 16 He will come and destroy those tenants and rgive the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “Surely not!” 17 But he looked directly at them and said, “What then is this that is written:
s“‘The stone that the builders rejected
18 Everyone who ufalls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”
