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The Parable of the Wicked Tenants

33 “Hear another parable.[a] There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country. 34 When the season of fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants, to get his fruit; 35 and the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

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Footnotes

  1. 21.33-44 This parable is really an allegory in which almost every detail represents something in God’s dealings with Israel.

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