The Parable of the wicked Tennants (Matthew 21)
>33Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.God established the covenant and salvation, and gave it to a people, Israel.
>34When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit. 35But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.>36Again, he sent other servants, more than the first group. But the tenants did the same to them.He sends the prophets to the people, but they dont listen, even worse they murder those God sends.
>37Finally, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.likewise they ignore Chris and kill Him
>38But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.’ 39So they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.They thought by killing Christ, the heir they can seize the heritage, much like it happened through out the scripture repeatedly
>>20088775>40Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard returns, what will he do to those tenants?”>41“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time.”The covenant is taken from them and given to people who observe Gods word and do His work properly
>42Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.The stone is Christ with which the builders, Israel were meant to build Gods kingdom, but they rejected Him, but Christ then became the cornerstone, the foundation of the new covenant.
