Luke 20:7-21

⁷And they answered that they coulde not tell whence it was.

⁸And Iesus sayde vnto them: nether tell I you by what auctorite I do these thinges.

⁹Then begane he to put forthe to the people this similitude. A certayne man planted a vyneyarde and let it forthe to fermers and went him selfe into a straunge countre for a greate season.

¹⁰And when the tyme was come he sent a servaut to his tennauntes that they shuld geve him of the frutes of the vyneyarde. And the tennauntes dyd bet him and sent him awaye empty.

¹¹And agayne he sent yet another servaunt. And they dyd bet him and foule entreated him also and sent him awaye emptye.

¹²More over he sent the thyrde to and him they wouded and cast out.

¹³Then sayde the lorde of the vyneyarde: what shall I do? I will sende my deare sonne him peradventure they will reverence when they se him.

¹⁴But when the fermers sawe him they thought in them selves sayinge: this is the heyre come let vs kyll him that the inheritaunce maye be oures.

¹⁵And they cast him out of the vyneyarde and kylled him. Now what shall the Lorde of the vyneyarde do vnto them?

¹⁶He will come and destroye those fermers and will let out his vyneyarde to other. When they hearde that they sayde: God forbyd.

¹⁷And he behelde them and sayde: what meaneth this then that is wrytten: The stone that the bylders refused the same is made the heed corner stone?

¹⁸whosoever stomble at that stone shalbe broken: but on whosoever it faul vpon it wyll grynde him to powder.

¹⁹And the hye Prestes and the Scribes the same howre went about to laye hondes on him but they feared the people. For they perceaved that he had spoken this similitude agaynst them.

²⁰And they watched him and sent forth spies which shuld fayne them selves perfecte to take him in his wordes and to delyvre him vnto the power and auctorite of the debite.

²¹And they axed him sayinge: Master we knowe that thou sayest and teachest ryght nother cosiderest thou eny manes degre but teachest the waye of God truly.