33 “Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country. 34 When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit. 35 And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them. 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 us kill him and have his inheritance.’ 39 And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 40 When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 41 They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”
42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:
“ ‘The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
this was the Lord’s doing,
and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
43 Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. 44 And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”
45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them. 46 And although they were seeking to arrest him, they feared the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet. (ESV)
Who do you think should inherit the vineyard? Do you think the man who built the vineyard and left it? Or maybe the man who has been working in it day and night to make sure that it produces fruit? Who should inherit the vineyard? Similar example is the daughter who stand at home and worked for her parents scratching a living and taking care of their parents or the daughter that went off to the big city and decided to make a different life for herself. The second daughter may have called home once in a while but never really came back to help out or make sure the farm was running smoothly.
Who should inherit the vineyard? The son of the slave woman who would put in his fair time in the fields or the son who has been barely weened from his mother? The tenants believe that all their hard work should afford them part of the inheritance. They decide that if they kill the heir, the inheritance would become their own.
I don't know about you but this always sounded a little strange to me. You need to make sure it looks like an accident, if you are going to kill the heir. Because if the Master knows you killed his only Son, why wouldn't he just kill you. But Jesus does not tell them the Kingdom of heaven is lost. But the Kingdom of God is going to be given to people producing its fruits.
The Son of God is killed just outside the Vineyard. The tenants will have the vineyard ripped from their hands, and given to others who will produce its fruit or hand over the fruit to its rightful owner. Who will inherit the kingdom of God? The Son dies so that you might be able to produce its fruit. The Son of God shares his inheritance with you.
Who should inherit the vineyard? The son of the slave woman who would put in his fair time in the fields or the son who has been barely weened from his mother? The tenants believe that all their hard work should afford them part of the inheritance. They decide that if they kill the heir, the inheritance would become their own.
I don't know about you but this always sounded a little strange to me. You need to make sure it looks like an accident, if you are going to kill the heir. Because if the Master knows you killed his only Son, why wouldn't he just kill you. But Jesus does not tell them the Kingdom of heaven is lost. But the Kingdom of God is going to be given to people producing its fruits.
The Son of God is killed just outside the Vineyard. The tenants will have the vineyard ripped from their hands, and given to others who will produce its fruit or hand over the fruit to its rightful owner. Who will inherit the kingdom of God? The Son dies so that you might be able to produce its fruit. The Son of God shares his inheritance with you.
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