Luke 20:16
Good News Translation
"He will come and kill those men, and turn the vineyard over to other tenants." When the people heard this, they said, "Surely not!"

New Revised Standard Version
He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “Heaven forbid!”

Contemporary English Version
I'll tell you what. He will come and kill those renters and let someone else have his vineyard." When the people heard this, they said, "This must never happen!"

New American Bible
He will come and put those tenant farmers to death and turn over the vineyard to others.” When the people heard this, they exclaimed, “Let it not be so!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
He will come and will destroy these husbandmen and will give the vineyard to others. Which they hearing, said to him: God forbid.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

destroy.

Luke 19:27 But as for those my enemies, who would not have me reign over them, bring them hither and kill them before me.

Psalm 2:8,9 Ask of me, and I will give thee the Gentiles for thy inheritance, and the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession. . . .

Psalm 21:8-10 Let thy hand be found by all thy enemies: let thy right hand find out all them that hate thee. . . .

Matthew 21:41 They say to him: He will bring those evil men to an evil end and let out his vineyard to other husbandmen that shall render him the fruit in due season.

Matthew 22:7 But when the king had heard of it, he was angry: and sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers and burnt their city.

Acts 13:46 Then Paul and Barnabas said boldly: To you it behoved us first to speak the word of God: but because you reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold we turn to the Gentiles.

shall give.

Nehemiah 9:36,37 Behold we ourselves this day are bondmen: and the land, which thou gavest our fathers, to eat the bread thereof, and the good things thereof, and we ourselves are servants in it. . . .

Context
The Parable of the Wicked Tenants
15So casting him out of the vineyard, they killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them? 16He will come and will destroy these husbandmen and will give the vineyard to others. Which they hearing, said to him: God forbid. 17But he looking on them, said: What is this then that is written, The stone, which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?…
Cross References
Matthew 21:34
And when the time of the fruits drew nigh, he sent his servants to the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits thereof.

Matthew 21:41
They say to him: He will bring those evil men to an evil end and let out his vineyard to other husbandmen that shall render him the fruit in due season.

Mark 12:9
What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those husbandmen and will give the vineyard to others.

Luke 19:27
But as for those my enemies, who would not have me reign over them, bring them hither and kill them before me.

Luke 20:15
So casting him out of the vineyard, they killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?

Romans 3:4
But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged.

Romans 3:6
(I speak according to man.) God forbid! Otherwise how shall God judge this world?

Romans 3:31
Do we then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid! But we establish the law.

Romans 6:2
God forbid! For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?

Romans 6:15
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid!

Romans 7:7
What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid! But I do not know sin, but by the law. For I had not known concupiscence, if the law did not say: Thou shalt not covet.

Romans 7:13
Was that then which is good made death unto me? God forbid! But sin, that it may appear sin, by that which is good, wrought death in me: that sin, by the commandment, might become sinful above measure.

Romans 9:14
What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? God forbid!

Romans 11:1
I say then: Hath God cast away his people? God forbid! For I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Romans 11:11
I say then: Have they so stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid! But by their offence salvation is come to the Gentiles, that they may be emulous of them.

1 Corinthians 6:15
Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid!

Galatians 2:17
But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ then the minister of sin? God forbid!

Galatians 3:21
Was the law then against the promises of God: God forbid! For if there had been a law given which could give life, verily justice should have been by the law.

Galatians 6:14
But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

Luke 20:15
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