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Parable 11 · to the leaders

The Wicked Tenants

Mattityahu 21:33–46
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What Yeshua is saying

Tenants beat the landowner's servants and finally murder his son to seize the inheritance.

The explanation

The vineyard is Yisrael; 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.

Echoes from the Tanakh
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