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“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.”
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Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “ ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’[a]?
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“Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.
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Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”[b]
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When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus’ parables, they knew he was talking about them.
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They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet.