Luke 20:9-16 — Legacy Standard Bible

Parable of the Vine-Growers

⁹^aAnd He began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and rented it out to ¹vine-growers, and went on a journey for a long time. ¹⁰“And at the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the vine-growers sent him away empty-handed having beaten him. ¹¹“And he proceeded to send another slave; and when they beat him also and treated him shamefully, they sent him away empty-handed. ¹²“And he proceeded to send a third; and this one also they wounded and cast out. ¹³“Now the ¹owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will ^arespect him.’ ¹⁴“But when the vine-growers saw him, they were reasoning with one another, saying, ‘This is the heir; let us kill him so that the inheritance will be ours.’ ¹⁵“So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What, then, will the ¹owner of the vineyard do to them? ¹⁶“He will come and ^adestroy these vine-growers and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “^bMay it never be!”