Twentieth_Century(i)
38 But the tenants, on seeing his son, said to each other 'Here is the heir! Come, let us kill him, and get his inheritance.'
39 So they seized him, and threw him outside the vineyard, and killed him.
40 Now, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?"
41 "Miserable wretches!" they exclaimed, "he will put them to a miserable death, and he will let out the vineyard to other tenants, who will pay him his share of the produce at the proper times."
42 Then Jesus added: "Have you never read in the Scriptures?-- 'The very stone which the builders despised--Has now itself become the corner-stone; This corner-stone has come from the Lord, And is marvelous in our eyes.'
43 And that, I tell you, is why the Kingdom of God will be taken from you, and given to a nation that does produce the fruit of the Kingdom.
44 Yes, and he who falls on this stone will be dashed to pieces, while any one on whom it falls--it will scatter him as dust."