Luke 20:9 – 18

⁹And he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went into another country for a long while.  ¹⁰When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard.  But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.  ¹¹And he sent another servant.  But they also beat and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed.  ¹²And he sent yet a third.  This one also they wounded and cast out.  ¹³Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do?  I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’  ¹⁴But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir.  Let us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.’  ¹⁵And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.  What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?  ¹⁶He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.”  When they heard this, they said, “Surely not!”  ¹⁷But he looked directly at them and said, “What then is this that is written:

“‘The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone’?

¹⁸Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”