12 The owner sent a third servant. He was also beaten terribly and thrown out of the vineyard.
13 The owner then said to himself, “What am I going to do? I know what. I'll send my son, the one I love so much. They will surely respect him!”
14 When the tenants saw the owner's son, they said to one another, “Some day he will own the vineyard. Let's kill him! Then we can have it all for ourselves.”
15 So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.Jesus asked, “What do you think the owner of the vineyard will do?
16 I'll tell you what. He will come and kill those tenants and let someone else have his vineyard.”When the people heard this, they said, “This must never happen!”
17 But Jesus looked straight at them and said, “Then what do the Scriptures mean when they say, ‘The stone that the builders tossed aside is now the most important stone of all’?
18 Anyone who stumbles over this stone will get hurt, and anyone it falls on will be smashed to pieces.”