16 He will come and destroy those tenant farmers and give the vineyard to others.” And when they[a] heard this,[b] they said, “May this never happen!” 17 But he looked intently at them and[c] said, “What then is this that is written:

‘The stone which the builders rejected,
    this has become the cornerstone.’[d]

18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls—it will crush him!”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 20:16 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Luke 20:16 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Luke 20:17 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“looked intently at”) has been translated as a finite verb
  4. Luke 20:17 Literally “the head of the corner”