“ But the tenant farmers said to one another,‘ Here comes the heir to this estate. Let’s kill him and get the estate for ourselves!’

不料，那些园户彼此说：‘这是承受产业的。来吧，我们杀他，产业就归我们了！’

那些园户却彼此说：‘这是承受产业的。来，我们杀了他，产业就归我们了！’

那些园户却彼此说：‘这是承受产业的。来，我们杀了他，产业就归我们了！’

这班佃户却彼此商量说，‘这个就是园主的继承人。来吧！我们杀掉他，产业就归我们了。’

那些佃户却彼此说：‘这是继承产业的；来，我们杀了他，产业就是我们的了。’

“可是那些农夫彼此说：‘这是继承人。来，我们把他杀了，那继业就归我们了。’

不料，那些園戶彼此說：『這是承受產業的。來吧，我們殺他，產業就歸我們了！』

那些園戶卻彼此說：『這是承受產業的。來，我們殺了他，產業就歸我們了！』

那些園戶卻彼此說：『這是承受產業的。來，我們殺了他，產業就歸我們了！』

這班佃戶卻彼此商量說，『這個就是園主的繼承人。來吧！我們殺掉他，產業就歸我們了。』

那些佃戶卻彼此說：‘這是繼承產業的；來，我們殺了他，產業就是我們的了。’

那些園工卻彼此說：「這是承繼產業的；來吧；我們殺他，產業就歸我們了。」

「可是那些農夫彼此說：『這是繼承人。來，我們把他殺了，那繼業就歸我們了。』

農夫相語曰、此其嗣子、且來殺之、業歸我矣、

農夫相告曰、此其嗣子、且來殺之、業歸我矣、

園夫相語曰、斯乃嗣子、盍來殺之、業必歸我、

詎園戶議曰：「是為其嗣、曷共殺之、其產歸吾矣。」

“ But the tenants said to one another,‘ This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

“ But the renters said to each other,‘ This is the one who will receive all the owner’s property someday. Come, let’s kill him. Then everything will be ours.’

But those tenants said to one another,‘ This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

But those tenant farmers said to one another,‘ This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

But those vine growers said to one another,‘ This is the heir; come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’

But those vinedressers said among themselves,‘ This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.

“ But those tenant farmers said among themselves,‘ This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’

But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.

But those tenants said to one another,‘ This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and the inheritance will be ours!’

But those farmers said among themselves,‘ This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

“ We gave you strict orders never again to teach in this man’s name!” he said.“ Instead, you have filled all Jerusalem with your teaching about him, and you want to make us responsible for his death!”

The religious leaders wanted to arrest Jesus because they realized he was telling the story against them— they were the wicked farmers. But they were afraid of the crowd, so they left him and went away.

My enemies surround me like a herd of bulls; fierce bulls of Bashan have hemmed me in!Like lions they open their jaws against me, roaring and tearing into their prey.My life is poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, melting within me.My strength has dried up like sunbaked clay. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have laid me in the dust and left me for dead.

The Lord, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, says to the one who is despised and rejected by the nations, to the one who is the servant of rulers:“ Kings will stand at attention when you pass by. Princes will also bow low because of the Lord, the faithful one, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.”

He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet he never said a word. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter. And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth.Unjustly condemned, he was led away. No one cared that he died without descendants, that his life was cut short in midstream. But he was struck down for the rebellion of my people.

But God knew what would happen, and his prearranged plan was carried out when Jesus was betrayed. With the help of lawless Gentiles, you nailed him to a cross and killed him.

Name one prophet your ancestors didn’t persecute! They even killed the ones who predicted the coming of the Righteous One— the Messiah whom you betrayed and murdered.

Then the leading priests and Pharisees called the high council together.“ What are we going to do?” they asked each other.“ This man certainly performs many miraculous signs.If we allow him to go on like this, soon everyone will believe in him. Then the Roman army will come and destroy both our Temple and our nation.”Caiaphas, who was high priest at that time, said,“ You don’t know what you’re talking about!You don’t realize that it’s better for you that one man should die for the people than for the whole nation to be destroyed.”

Herod was furious when he realized that the wise men had outwitted him. He sent soldiers to kill all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, based on the wise men’s report of the star’s first appearance.

King Herod was deeply disturbed when he heard this, as was everyone in Jerusalem.He called a meeting of the leading priests and teachers of religious law and asked,“ Where is the Messiah supposed to be born?”“ In Bethlehem in Judea,” they said,“ for this is what the prophet wrote:‘ And you, O Bethlehem in the land of Judah, are not least among the ruling cities of Judah, for a ruler will come from you who will be the shepherd for my people Israel.’”Then Herod called for a private meeting with the wise men, and he learned from them the time when the star first appeared.Then he told them,“ Go to Bethlehem and search carefully for the child. And when you find him, come back and tell me so that I can go and worship him, too!”After this interview the wise men went their way. And the star they had seen in the east guided them to Bethlehem. It went ahead of them and stopped over the place where the child was.When they saw the star, they were filled with joy!They entered the house and saw the child with his mother, Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasure chests and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.When it was time to leave, they returned to their own country by another route, for God had warned them in a dream not to return to Herod.After the wise men were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream.“ Get up! Flee to Egypt with the child and his mother,” the angel said.“ Stay there until I tell you to return, because Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”

The people in Jerusalem and their leaders did not recognize Jesus as the one the prophets had spoken about. Instead, they condemned him, and in doing this they fulfilled the prophets’ words that are read every Sabbath.They found no legal reason to execute him, but they asked Pilate to have him killed anyway.

“ Come on, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns. We can tell our father,‘ A wild animal has eaten him.’ Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams!”

The kings of the earth prepare for battle; the rulers plot together against the Lord and against his anointed one.“ Let us break their chains,” they cry,“ and free ourselves from slavery to God.”