40. Now when the master of the vineyard arrives, what will he do to those tenant farmers?”
41. They said to him, “He will destroy those evil men completely and lease the vineyard to other tenant farmers who will give him the fruits in their season.”
42. Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, this has become the cornerstone. This came about from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
43. For this reason, I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and will be given to a people who produce its fruits.
44. And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls—it will crush him!”
45. And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he was speaking about them,
46. and although they wanted to arrest him, they were afraid of the crowds, because they looked upon him as a prophet.