12 Then he started telling them some parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it, dug out a wine-pressing pit, and built a security tower.[ref] Then he rented it out and went off travelling. 2 At harvest time, he sent a slave to go to the tenant farmers and get his percentage of the harvest. 3 But the tenants grabbed the slave and beat him up, then sent him back empty-handed. 4 The owner sent a second slave, but they insulted that one and struck him on the head. 5 So the owner sent a third slave and they murdered him. He sent many other slaves—some they just beat up and others they murdered. 6 But the owner still had his one, dearly loved son, so finally he sent him to go, thinking that they would now be convinced because it was his son. 7 However, those tenant farmers said to each other, ‘Ah ha. This is the one who will inherit this land. If we kill him, we’ll be the ones to control the estate.’ 8 So they took him and killed him, and threw the body outside the vineyard fence.

9 “Now, what do you think the vineyard owner will do? Yes, he’ll come and eliminate those evil tenants, and give the contract to others. 10 Haven’t you all read this in the scriptures:

‘the stone that the builders rejected

became the important cornerstone

11 that was given by Yahweh,

and we think it’s incredible.’?”[ref]

12 Then those leaders tried to arrest him because they knew that it was them that the parable was addressed at, but they couldn’t do it because Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) had the favour of the crowd, so they just left the area.