Mat 21:33-46, Mar 12:1-12 | 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

Mark 12:1-12

1 The Parable about the Tenant Farmers Matthew 21:33-46; Luke 20:9-19Then Jesus ^{▼▼Lit. he} began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the wine press, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went abroad.Matt 21:33; Luke 22:9 2 At the right time he sent a servant to the farmers to collect from them a share of the produce from the vineyard. 3 But the farmers ^{▼▼Lit. they} grabbed the servant, ^{▼▼Lit. him} beat him, and sent him back empty-handed. 4 Again, the man ^{▼▼Lit. he} sent another servant to them. They beat the servant ^{▼▼Lit. him} over the head and treated him shamefully. 5 Then the man ^{▼▼Lit. he} sent another, and that one they killed. So it was with many other servants. ^{▼▼Lit. with many others} Some of these they beat, and others they killed. 6 He still had one more person to send, ^{▼▼The Gk. lacks more person to send} a son whom he loved. Finally, he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 7 But those farmers said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come on, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’ 8 So they grabbed him, killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.

9 “Now what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers and give the vineyard to others. 10 Haven't you ever read this Scripture:Ps 118:22

‘The stone that the builders rejected

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

11 This was the Lord's doing,

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

12 They were trying to arrest him but were afraid of the crowd. Realizing that he had spoken this parable against them, they left him alone and went away.Matt 21:45-46; Mark 11:18; John 7:25, 30, 44