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Luke 20:13-17; 23:18-23

(Luke 20:13-17; 23:18-23)

Luke 20:13-17

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 13 At this the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I will send my son, the beloved.+ They will likely respect this one.’ 14 When the cultivators caught sight of him, they reasoned with one another, saying, ‘This is the heir. Let us kill him so that the inheritance may become ours.’ 15 So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.+ What, then, will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 16 He will come and kill these cultivators and will give the vineyard to others.”
  
  On hearing this, they said: “Never may that happen!” 17 But he looked straight at them and said: “What, then, does this mean where it is written: ‘The stone that the builders rejected, this has become the chief cornerstone’?+

Luke 23:18-23

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 18 But the whole crowd shouted out: “Do away with this man,* and release Bar·abʹbas to us!”+ 19 (This man had been thrown into prison for sedition that had occurred in the city and for murder.) 20 Again Pilate called out to them, because he wanted to release Jesus.+ 21 Then they began to yell, saying: “To the stake with him! To the stake with him!”*+ 22 The third time he said to them: “Why? What bad thing did this man do? I found in him nothing deserving of death;+ I will therefore punish him and release him.” 23 At this they became insistent, demanding with loud voices that he be executed,* and their voices prevailed.+