32. For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him. Tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him, but you, when you saw it, didn’t even change your minds then and believe him.
33. “Listen to another parable: There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. He leased it to tenant farmers and went away.
34. When the grape harvest drew near, he sent his slaves to the farmers to collect his fruit.
35. But the farmers took his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
36. Again, he sent other slaves, more than the first group, and they did the same to them.
37. Finally, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.
38. “But when the tenant farmers saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance! ’
39. So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.