Matthew 21:33-45

33Hear another parable: There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.

34But when the time of fruit drew near, he sent his bondmen to the husbandmen to receive his fruits.

35And the husbandmen took his bondmen, and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

36Again he sent other bondmen more than the first, and they did to them in like manner.

37And at last he sent to them his son, saying, They will have respect for my son.

38But the husbandmen, seeing the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him and possess his inheritance.

39And they took him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him.

40When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what shall he do to those husbandmen?

41They say to him, He will miserably destroy those evil [men], and let out the vineyard to other husbandmen, who shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

42Jesus says to them, Have ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which they that builded rejected, this has become the corner-stone: this is of [the] Lord, and it is wonderful in our eyes?

43Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of 1God shall be taken from you and shall be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.

44And he that falls on this stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.

45And the chief priests and the Pharisees, having heard his parables, knew that he spoke about them.