The Wicked Farmers
Farmers beat the master's servants and finally murder his son to seize the inheritance.
33“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.34When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruit.35The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.36Again, he sent other servants more than the first; and they treated them the same way.37But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’38But the farmers, when they saw the son, said amongst themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and seize his inheritance.’39So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard, then killed him.40When therefore the adonai of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”41They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers who will give him the fruit in its season.”42Yeshua said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner. This was from Adonai. It is marvellous in our eyes’?43Therefore I tell you, Elohim’s Kingdom will be taken away from you and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.44He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”45When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.46When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.
The vineyard is Israel; the servants are the prophets; the son is Yeshua Himself, telling His killers what they are about to do. He quotes Tehillim 118 — the rejected stone has become the cornerstone. The leaders heard the parable and recognised themselves. They tried to arrest Him anyway.