6. and if we may say, From men, all the people will stone us, for they are having been persuaded John to be a prophet.'
7. And they answered, that they knew not whence [it was],
8. and Jesus said to them, `Neither do I say to you by what authority I do these things.'
9. And he began to speak unto the people this simile: `A certain man planted a vineyard, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time,
10. and at the season he sent unto the husbandmen a servant, that from the fruit of the vineyard they may give to him, but the husbandmen having beat him, did send [him] away empty.
11. `And he added to send another servant, and they that one also having beaten and dishonoured, did send away empty;
12. and he added to send a third, and this one also, having wounded, they did cast out.