Matthew 21:33-39

33Then Jesus said again to the Jewish leaders, ‘Listen to another story that I will tell you. There was a man who had his own farm. He planted vines in a garden to grow grapes there. He built a wall around the garden. He dug a hole in the ground for a winepress to make wine. He also built a tall building to watch over the garden. The man then found some farmers to work in the garden for him. Then he went away to another country.

34When it was nearly time for the harvest, the master sent his servants to speak to the farmers. He wanted them to give him the fruit that was his.

35But the farmers took hold of the servants. They hit one of them with sticks. They killed another one. They threw stones at another servant and killed him.

36So the master sent other servants to go to the farmers. He sent more servants than the first time. But the farmers did the same thing to those servants too.

37After that, the master sent his own son to the farmers. He thought, “The farmers will surely respect my son.”

38The farmers saw the master's son coming. They said to each other, “This is the master's own son. The garden will belong to him when his father dies. So we should kill the son and then the garden will be ours.”

39Then the farmers took hold of the son. They threw him out of the garden and they killed him.’