20:11 - Then he sent another of his employees: and they beat him too, and abused him, and made him go back empty-handed.
20:12 - He sent a third person: and they hurt him also, and put him out.
20:13 - Then the landowner said, What will I do? I will send my son, whom I love: and they will hopefully respect him when they see him.
20:14 - When the workers saw him, they gathered together to talk about what to do. This is the heir, they concluded, let’s kill him so that we can have his inheritance.
20:15 - So they threw him out of the vineyard and murdered him. Now, what will the vineyard’s owner do to them?
20:16 - They said, God forbid when they heard that He would come down and destroy the caretakers and give their vineyards to others.
20:17 - He hugged them and said, What is this written, the stone rejected by the builders, the same has been done to the head of the corner?
20:18 - Anybody who will fall on that stone will be broken into pieces; and it will scatter anyone to whom it falls like dust.
20:19 - The religious leaders and journalists searched for him and worried about public opinion because they felt his story had been aimed at them.
20:20 - They watched him and sent spies to pretend they were ordinary men in order to hear what he said, so they would be able to bring him under the power and authority of the governor.
