Bible Verses

About Paying Tribute to Caesar They sent some Pharisees and members of Herod’s party to Jesus, planning to trap him with his own words.

They wanted to arrest him because they realized that Jesus meant this parable for them, but they were afraid of the crowd; so they left him and went away.

this is the Lord’s doing, and we marvel at it?”

And Jesus added: “Have you not read this passage of the Scriptures: The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; 

Now, what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.”

So they seized him, killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard. 

But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the one who is to inherit the vineyard. Let’s kill him, and the property will be ours.’ 

One was still left, his beloved son. So, finally, he sent him to the tenants, for he thought, ‘They will respect my son.’ 

He sent yet another, and they killed him. In the same way, they treated many others: some they beat, and others they killed. 

Again, the man sent another servant. They also struck him on the head and treated him shamefully.