Matthew 21:33-39

33“Listen to another parable: There was 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.

34When the time came to harvest fruit, he sent his servants to the farmers to collect his fruit.

35The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

36Again, he sent other servants, more than the first group, and they did the same to them.

37Finally, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.

38“But when the tenant farmers saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’

39So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.