"Ha! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you arethe Holy One of God!"

Then Jesus said to them, "I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?"

And he was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests the scribes and the leaders of the people sought to destroy him,

He will come and destroy those tenants, and give the vineyard to others." When they heard this, they said, "May this never be!"