3. But they seized him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
4. Then he sent another servant to them. They threw stones at him, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.
5. Still he sent another, and they killed him. And there were many others. Some they beat, and some they killed.
6. “Having yet his one well-beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, ‘They will revere my son.’
7. “But those vinedressers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’
8. So they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.
9. “What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill the vinedressers and give the vineyard to others.
10. Have you not read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejectedhas become the cornerstone.
11. This was the Lord’s doing,and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”