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|Lucas 20:11|So the owner sent another servant. The renters also beat him up. They insulted him terribly and sent him away without a thing.
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|Lucas 20:12|The owner sent a third servant. He was also beaten terribly and thrown out of the vineyard.
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|Lucas 20:13|The owner then said to himself, “What am I going to do? I know what. I'll send my son, the one I love so much. They will surely respect him!”
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|Lucas 20:14|When the renters saw the owner's son, they said to one another, “Someday he will own the vineyard. Let's kill him! Then we can have it all for ourselves.”
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|Lucas 20:15|So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. Jesus asked, “What do you think the owner of the vineyard will do?
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|Lucas 20:16|I'll tell you what. He will come and kill those renters and let someone else have his vineyard.” When the people heard this, they said, “This must never happen!”
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|Lucas 20:17| a But Jesus looked straight at them and said,“Then what do the Scriptures mean when they say, ‘The stone the builders tossed aside is now the most important stone of all’?
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|Lucas 20:18|Anyone who stumbles over this stone will get hurt, and anyone it falls on will be smashed to pieces.”
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|Lucas 20:19| The chief priests and the teachers of the Law of Moses knew that Jesus was talking about them when he was telling this story. They wanted to arrest him right then, but they were afraid of the people.
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|Lucas 20:20| Jesus' enemies kept watching him closely, because they wanted to hand him over to the Roman governor. So they sent some men who pretended to be good. But they were really spies trying to catch Jesus saying something wrong.
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