The Parable of the Tenant Farmers in the Vineyard

And he began to tell the people this parable: “A man[a] planted a vineyard, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time. 10 And at the proper time he sent a slave to the tenant farmers, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenant farmers sent him away empty-handed after[b] beating him.[c] 11 And he proceeded to send another slave, but they beat and dishonored that one also, and[d] sent him[e] away empty-handed.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 20:9 Some manuscripts have “A certain man”
  2. Luke 20:10 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“beating”) which is understood as temporal
  3. Luke 20:10 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  4. Luke 20:11 Here “and” is supplied because the two previous participles (“beat” and “dishonored”) have been translated as finite verbs
  5. Luke 20:11 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation