16"What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others." When the people heard this, they said, "May this never be!"


In Context

13 "Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my son, whom I love; perhaps they will respect him.'

14 "But when the tenants saw him, they talked the matter over. 'This is the heir,' they said. 'Let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'

15 So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

16 "What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others." When the people heard this, they said, "May this never be!"

17 Jesus looked directly at them and asked, "Then what is the meaning of that which is written: " 'The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone ' ?

18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed."

Luke 20:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:16He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard [it,] they said, God forbid.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:16He will come, and will destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. Which they hearing, said to him: God forbid.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:16He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:16He will come and destroy those husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it they said, May it never be!

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:16He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:16He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, may that never be.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:16He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.| When they heard it, they said, |May it never be!|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:16He will come, and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.' And having heard, they said, 'Let it not be!'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:16He shall come and destroy these farmers, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.