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the immersion of Yochanan -- was it from Heaven or from a human source?" T
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hey discussed it among themselves, saying, "If we say, `From Heaven,' he will say, `Then why didn't you believe him?'
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But if we say, `From a human source,' all the people will stone us, because they're convinced that Yochanan was a prophet."
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So they answered, "We don't know where it came from."
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Yeshua said to them, "Then I won't tell you by what s'mikhah I do these things."
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Next Yeshua told the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, rented it to tenant-farmers and went away for a long time.
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When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants to receive his share of the crop from the vineyard; but the tenants beat him up and sent him away empty-handed.
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He sent another servant; they beat him too, insulted him and sent him away empty-handed.
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He sent yet a third; this one they wounded and threw out.
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"Then the owner of the vineyard said, `What am I to do? I will send my son, whom I love; maybe they will respect him.'
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But when the tenants saw him, they discussed it among themselves and said, `This is the heir; let's kill him, so that the inheritance will be ours!'