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4. What is Jesus trying to tell the crowd in 20:9-16? God owns the vineyard (Isa 5:1-7, Jer 12:10, Ez 19:10) . The Israelites are only tenants. The tenants are wicked and greedy: they have killed the prophets, and they will kill the son. The vineyard will be given to others. The tenants are the people ("he looked directly at them") Jesus is the cornerstone (Is 28:16, Eph 2:20, 1 Pet 2:7) : rejected, validated, precious, dangerous. Jesus quotes Ps 118:22. This part of the parable is also not hard to understand. In Acts 4:8-12 after being arrested for healing the lame man at the Temple, Peter interprets the second half of this parable for the Jewish leaders who had condemned Jesus just some months earlier. He says: “Rulers of the people and elders, if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a cripple, by what means this man has been healed, be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you cruc...

  Jesus’ Mission: The Parable Of The Tenants Luke 20:9-19 And he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went into another country for a long while. 10  When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 11  And he sent another servant. But they also beat and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed. 12  And he sent yet a third. This one also they wounded and cast out. 13  Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’ 14  But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Let us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.’ 15  And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 16  He will come and...