The Life of Jesus

And some of the Pharisees, from amongst the multitude, said to him: Master, rebuke thy disciples.

To whom he said: I say to you that if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out.

And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying:

If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes.

For the days shall come upon thee: and thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round and straiten thee on every side,

And beat thee flat to the ground, and thy children who are in thee. And they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation.

And entering into the temple, he began to cast out them that sold therein and them that bought.

Saying to them: It is written: My house is the house of prayer. But you have made it a den of thieves.

And he was teaching daily in the temple. And the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people sought to destroy him.

And they found not what to do to him: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.

And it came to pass that on one of the days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes, with the ancients, met together,

And spoke to him, saying: Tell us, by what authority dost thou these things? Or, who is he that hath given thee this authority?

And Jesus answering, said to them: I will also ask you one thing. Answer me:

The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?

But they thought within themselves, saying: If we shall say, From heaven: he will say: Why then did you not believe in him?

But if we say, of men: the whole people will stone us. For they are persuaded that John was a prophet.

And they answered that they knew not whence it was.

And Jesus said to them: Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.

And he began to speak to the people this parable: A certain man planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen: and he was abroad for a long time.

And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard. Who, beating him, sent him away empty.

And again he sent another servant. But they beat him also and, treating him reproachfully, sent him away empty.

And again he sent the third: and they wounded him also and cast him out.

Then the lord of the vineyard said: What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be, when they see him, they will reverence him.

Whom, when the husbandmen saw, they thought within themselves, saying: This is the heir. Let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.

So casting him out of the vineyard, they killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?