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He had still one person left, a son whom he loved; in the end, he sent him to them, saying, `My son they will respect.'
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But the tenants said to each other, `This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!'
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So they seized him, killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.
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What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come, destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others!
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Haven't you read the passage in the Tanakh that says, `The very rock which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone!
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This has come from ADONAI, and in our eyes it is amazing'?"
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They set about to arrest him, for they recognized that he had told the parable with reference to themselves. But they were afraid of the crowd, so they left him and went away.
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Next they sent some P'rushim and some members of Herod's party to him in order to trap him with a sh'eilah.
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They came and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you tell the truth and are not concerned with what people think about you, since you pay no attention to a person's status but really teach what God's way is. Does Torah say that taxes are to be paid to the Roman Emperor, or not?"
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But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why are you trying to trap me? Bring me a denarius so I can look at it."
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They brought one; and he asked them, "Whose name and picture are these?" "The Emperor's," they replied.