6. But if we say, ‘From man,’ all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”
7. So they answered that they did not know where it came from.
8. And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
9. And he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went into another country for a long while.
10. When the time came, he sent a servantto the tenants, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
11. And he sent another servant. But they also beat and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed.