40 Now when the master of the vineyard arrives, what will he do to those tenant farmers?” 41 They said to him, “He will destroy those evil men completely and lease the vineyard to other tenant farmers who will give him the fruits in their season.” 42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures,

‘The stone which the builders rejected,
    this has become the cornerstone.[a]
This came about from the Lord,
    and it is marvelous in our eyes’?[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 21:42 Literally “the head of the corner”
  2. Matthew 21:42 A quotation from Ps 118:22–23