Luke 20:10–18

¹⁰At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him away empty.↗

¹¹He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.↗

¹²He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him and threw him out.↗

¹³The lord of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.’↗

¹⁴“But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’↗

¹⁵Then they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?↗

¹⁶He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard that, they said, “May that never be!”↗

¹⁷But he looked at them and said,“Then what is this that is written, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the chief cornerstone’?↗

¹⁸Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust.”↗