34
When harvest-time came, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the crop.
35
But the tenants seized his servants -- this one they beat up, that one they killed, another they stoned.
36
So he sent some other servants, more than the first group, and they did the same to them.
37
Finally, he sent them his son, saying, `My son they will respect.'
38
But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, `This is the heir. Come, let's kill him and take his inheritance!'
39
So they grabbed him, threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
40
Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?"
41
They answered him, "He will viciously destroy those vicious men and rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the crop when it's due."
42
Yeshua said to them, "Haven't you ever read in the Tanakh, `The very rock which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone! This has come from ADONAI, and in our eyes it is amazing'?
43
Therefore, I tell you that the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to the kind of people that will produce its fruit!"
44
Some manuscripts include verse 44: Whoever falls on this stone will be broken in pieces; but if it falls on him, he will be crushed to powder!"