Matthew 21:33-41
33“Listen to another parable. There was a landowner
who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a
wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he
leased it to tenants and went to another country.
34When the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves
to the tenants to collect his produce. 35But the tenants
seized his slaves and beat one, killed another, and
stoned another. 36Again he sent other slaves, more
than the first; and they treated them in the same way.
37Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will
respect my son.’ 38But when the tenants saw the son,
they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us
kill him and get his inheritance.” 39So they seized him,
threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. 40Now
when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he
do to those tenants?” 41They said to him, “He will put
those wretches to a miserable death, and lease the
vineyard to other tenants who will give him the
produce at the harvest time.”