6. But if we say ‘From human beings,’ this whole crowd here will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”
7. So they answered, “We don't know where it came from.”
8. And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you, then, by what right I do these things.”
9. Then Jesus told the people this parable: “There was once a man who planted a vineyard, let it out to tenants, and then left home for a long time.
10. When the time came to gather the grapes, he sent a slave to the tenants to receive from them his share of the harvest. But the tenants beat the slave and sent him back without a thing.
11. So he sent another slave; but the tenants beat him also, treated him shamefully, and sent him back without a thing.
12. Then he sent a third slave; the tenants wounded him, too, and threw him out.