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Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son. ’
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But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves,
1‘This is the heir. Come,
2let us kill him and have his inheritance. ’
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And they took him and
3threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
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4When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants? ”
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They said to him,
5“He will put those wretches to a miserable death and
6let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons. ”
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Jesus said to them,
7“Have you never read in the Scriptures:
8“‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
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Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God
9will be taken away from you and given to a people
10producing its fruits.
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And
11the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and
12when it falls on anyone, it will crush him. ”
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When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them.
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And
13although they were seeking to arrest him,
14they feared the crowds, because they held him to be
15a prophet.