33. “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.
34. When the harvest time was near, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his portion of the crop.
35. But the tenants seized his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
36. Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they treated them the same way.
37. Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
38. But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and get his inheritance!’
39. So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
40. Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”
41. They said to him, “He will utterly destroy those evil men! Then he will lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his portion at the harvest.”