32. For John the Baptist came and showed you the right way to live, but you didn’t believe him, while tax collectors and prostitutes did. And even when you saw this happening, you refused to believe him and repent of your sins.
33. “Now listen to another story. A certain landowner planted a vineyard, built a wall around it, dug a pit for pressing out the grape juice, and built a lookout tower. Then he leased the vineyard to tenant farmers and moved to another country.
34. At the time of the grape harvest, he sent his servants to collect his share of the crop.
35. But the farmers grabbed his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another.
36. So the landowner sent a larger group of his servants to collect for him, but the results were the same.
37. “Finally, the owner sent his son, thinking, ‘Surely they will respect my son.’