Mat 21:33-46, Luk 20:9-19 | ISV | STEP | “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a wall around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went abroad.

Matthew 21:33-46

33 “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a wall around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went abroad.Ps 80:9; Song 8:11; Isa 5:1; Jer 2:21; Matt 25:14-15; Mark 12:1; Luke 20:9 34 When harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenant farmers to collect his produce.Song 8:11-12 35 But the farmers took his servants and beat one, killed another, and attacked another with stones.2Chr 24:21; 36:16; Neh 9:26; Matt 5:12; Acts 7:52; 1Thes 2:15; Heb 11:36-37 36 Again, he sent other servants to them, a greater number than the first, but the tenant farmers ^{▼▼Lit. they} treated them the same way. 37 Finally, he sent his son to them, thinking, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38 But when the tenant farmers saw his son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come on, let's kill him and get his inheritance!’Ps 2:2, 8; Matt 26:3; 27:1; John 11:53; Acts 4:27; Heb 1:2 39 So they grabbed him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.Matt 26:50; Mark 14:46; Luke 22:54; John 18:12; Acts 2:23 40 Now when the owner of the vineyard returns, what will he do to those farmers?”

41 They said to him, “He will put those horrible men to a horrible death. Then he will lease the vineyard to other farmers who will give him his produce at harvest time.”Luke 20:16; 21:24; Acts 13:46; 15:7; 18:6; 28:28; Rom 9:1-33; 10:1-21; 11:1-36; Heb 2:3

42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures,Ps 118:22; Isa 28:16; Mark 12:10; Luke 20:17; Acts 4:11; Eph 2:20; 1Pet 2:6-7

‘The stone that the builders rejected

has become the cornerstone. ^{▼▼Or capstone}

This was the Lord's doing,

and it is amazing in our eyes’? ^{▼▼Ps 118:22-23}

43 That is why I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce fruit for it.Matt 8:12 44 The person who falls over this stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush anyone on whom it falls.” ^{▼▼Other mss. lack this verse}Isa 8:14-15; 60:12; Dan 2:44; Zech 12:3; Luke 20:18; Rom 9:33; 1Pet 2:8

45 When the high priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he was talking about them. 46 Although they wanted to arrest him, they were afraid of the crowds, for they considered him a prophet.Matt 21:11; Luke 7:16; John 7:40

Luke 20:9-19

9 The Parable about the Tenant Farmers Matthew 21:33-46; Mark 12:1-12Then he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and went abroad for a long time.Matt 21:33; Mark 12:1 10 At the right time he sent a servant to the farmers in order that they might give him his share of the produce of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him back empty-handed. 11 He sent another servant, and they beat him, too, treated him shamefully, and sent him back empty-handed. 12 Then he sent a third, and they wounded him and threw him out, too.

13 “Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I'll send my son whom I love. Maybe they'll respect him.’ 14 But when the farmers saw him, they talked it over among themselves and said, ‘This is the heir. Let's kill him so that the inheritance will be ours!’ 15 So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 16 He will come and destroy those farmers and give the vineyard to others.” Those who heard him said, “That must never happen!” 17 But Jesus ^{▼▼Lit. he} R

‘The stone that the builders rejected

has become the cornerstone’? ^{▼▼Or capstone; Ps 118:22}

18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush anyone on whom it falls.”Dan 2:34-35; Matt 21:44

19 When the scribes and the high priests realized that he had told this parable against them, they wanted to lay their hands on him at that very hour, but they were afraid of the crowd.