"Hear another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put up a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tennants and went on a journey. When vintage time drew near, he sent his servants to the tennants to obtain his produce. But the tennants seized the servants and one they beat, another they killed, and a third they stoned. Again he sent servants, more numerous than the first ones, but they treated them in the same way. Finally, he sent his son to them, thinking, 'They will respect my son.' But when the tennants saw the son, they said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and acquire his inheritance.' They seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What will the owner of the vineyard do to those tennants when he comes?"
They answered him, "He will put those wretched men to a wretched death and lease his vineyard to other tennants who will give him the produce at the proper times." Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the scriptures: 'The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; by the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes'?
Therefore, I say to you, the kingdom of God will taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit. The one who falls on this stone will be dashed to pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls." When the chief priests and the Parisees heard his parables, they knew that he was speaking about them. And although they were attempting to arrest him, they feared the crowds, for they reguarded him as a prophet.
Other Agricultural Parables of Jesus:
- "Picking Grain on the Sabbath"
- The "Sower"
- The "Mustard Seed"
- The "Weeds in the Wheat"
- The "Yeast"
- The "Fig Tree"
- The "Vine and the Branches"
- The "Workers in the Vineyard"
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