1410627 Jesus teaches two parables – Matthew 21:28-46, Mark 12:1-12, Luke 20:9-19, April A.D. 29 Jerusalem
And he began to speak to the people in parables. “But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’ And he answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind, and went. And he came to the second, and said the same thing. And he answered, ‘I go, sir,’ but he did not go. Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I say to you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you. For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And when you saw it, you did not even repent afterward, that you might believe him.”
“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set and put a hedge about it, dug a pit in it for the winepress, built a tower, leased and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time. And when it was time and the proper season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers took his servants, beat him and sent him away empty, killed another, and stoned another. Yet again, he sent other servants to them more than the first: and they treated them the same way. They also beat him, threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, treated him shamefully and sent him away empty. And yet, he sent another third and they also wounded him, killed him and threw him out; and many others, beating some, and killing some.”
“But he still had one, his beloved son. And the lord of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.’ Afterward he sent last to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ But those farmers, when they saw the son, they reasoned among themselves saying, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and seize his inheritance and it will be ours.’ So they took him, and threw him and cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”
They said to him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.” Jesus said to them, “He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” And when they heard it, they said, “God forbid!” But he looked at them, and said, “Then what is this that is written, did you never even read in the Scriptures,
‘The stone which the builders rejected,
the same was made the head of the corner as the chief cornerstone?
This was from the Lord.
And it is marvelous in our eyes?’”
“Therefore I say to you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation bringing forth its fruit. Everyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whoever it will fall, it will crush whomever it falls on and scatter him as dust.” And when the chief priests, the scribes, and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke the parable about them and against them. But when they sought to lay hands on him that very hour and tried to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet. And they left him, and went away.
