The Rich Farmer and His Tenants; a picture of the greedy priests.
Matthew 21:33. “You must now listen to another Parable. A man who was master of a house planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a wine press in it and built a tower, then he leased it to farmers and he went away to a foreign country. 34. And when the time of the fruit was near, he sent his servants to the farmers to take his fruit. 35. And the farmers, having taken his servants, beat some, and others they killed, and others they stoned. 36. Again he sent other servants greater in number than the first, and they did likewise to them. 37. Then later he sent his son to them saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38. But when the farmers saw the son they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir: come let us kill him, then we would have his inheritance,’ 39. and when they took him they cast him outside the vineyard and they killed him. 40. Then when the master of the vineyard would come, what will he do to those farmers?” 41. They said to Him, “He will destroy those badly evil people and he will lease the vineyard to other farmers, who will pay to him the fruits in their time.” 42. Y’shua said to them, “And then have you never read in the Scriptures, ‘A stone which the builders rejected, this became a cornerstone: this was done by the Lord and is it a wonder in our eyes.’? (Ps. 118:22,23)
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