019:046 "It is written," He said, "`And My house shall be the House of Prayer,' but you have made it a robbers' cave." 019:047 And day after day He taught in the Temple, while the High Priests and the Scribes were devising some means of destroying Him, as were also the leading men of the people. 019:048 But they could not find any way of doing it, for the people all hung upon His lips. 020:001 On one of those days while He was teaching the people in the Temple and proclaiming the Good News, the High Priests came upon Him, and the Scribes, 020:002 together with the Elders, and they asked Him, "Tell us, By what authority are you doing these things? And who is it that gave you this authority?" 020:003 "I also will put a question to you, "He said; 020:004 "was John's baptism of Heavenly or of human origin?" 020:005 So they debated the matter with one another. "If we say `Heavenly,'" they argued, "he will say, `Why did you not believe him?' 020:006 And if we say, `human,' the people will all stone us; for they are thoroughly convinced that John was a Prophet." 020:007 And they answered that they did not know the origin of it. 020:008 "Nor will I tell you," said Jesus, "by what authority I do these things." 020:009 Then He proceeded to speak a parable to the people. "There was a man," He said, "who planted a vineyard, let it out to vine-dressers, and went abroad for a considerable time. 020:010 At vintage-time he sent a servant to the vine-dressers, for them to give him a share of the crop; but the vine-dressers beat him cruelly and sent him away empty-handed. 020:011 Then he sent a second servant; and him too they beat and ill treated and sent away empty-handed. 020:012 Then again he sent a third; and this one also they wounded and drove away. 020:013 Then the owner of the vineyard said, "`What am I to do? I will send my son--my dearly-loved son: they will probably respect him.' 020:014 "But when the vine-dressers saw him, they discussed the matter with one another, and said, "`This is the heir: let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.' 020:015 "So they turned him out of the vineyard and murdered him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 020:016 He will come and put these vine-dressers to death, and give the vineyard to others." "God forbid!" exclaimed the hearers. 020:017 He looked at them and said, "What then does that mean which is written, "`The Stone which the builders rejected has been made the cornerstone'? 020:018 Every one who falls on that stone will be severely hurt, but on whomsoever it falls, he will be utterly crushed."