¹⁶ He will come and ·kill [destroy] those farmers and will give the vineyard to ·other farmers [^Lothers; ^Creferring to the sinners who were responding to Jesus’ call for repentance, and eventually to the Gentiles who would be saved].”

When the people heard this ·story [parable], they said, “·Let this never happen [^TGod forbid; ^LMay it not happen]!”

¹⁷ But Jesus looked [directly; intently] at them and said, “Then what does this Scripture passage mean:

¹⁸ Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken [Is. 8:14], and the person on whom it falls, that person will be crushed [cf. Dan. 2:34]!”