^{13 Ref} `And the owner of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my son -- the beloved, perhaps having seen this one, they will do reverence;

^{14 Ref} and having seen him, the husbandmen reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir; come, we may kill him, that the inheritance may become ours;

^{15 Ref} and having cast him outside of the vineyard, they killed `him'; what, then, shall the owner of the vineyard do to them?

^{16 Ref} He will come, and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.' And having heard, they said, `Let it not be!'

^{17 Ref} and he, having looked upon them, said, `What, then, is this that hath been written: A stone that the builders rejected -- this became head of a corner?

^{18 Ref} every one who hath fallen on that stone shall be broken, and on whom it may fall, it will crush him to pieces.'

^{19 Ref} And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him in that hour, and they feared the people, for they knew that against them he spake this simile.