Mark 12:1-2

1Jesus began to speak to them [the chief priests, scribes and elders who were questioning Him] in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a wall around it, and dug a pit for the wine press and built a tower; and he rented it out to tenant farmers and left the country.

2When the harvest season came he sent a servant to the tenants, in order to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.