Luke 20:8

5 And they reasoned with themselves, saying -- `If we may say, From heaven, he will say, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?

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;