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!"
45
As the head cohanim and the P'rushim listened to his stories, they saw that he was speaking about them.
46
But when they set about to arrest him, they were afraid of the crowds; because the crowds considered him a prophet.