Parable of the Tenants
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Do you remember?
Do you remember?
Whose authority?
23 When He entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to Him while He was teaching, and said, “By what authority are You doing these things, and who gave You this authority?”
Jesus has has His authority questioned and he responds with backing the chief priests into a corner.
First he questioned them about John’s baptism
25 “The baptism of John was from what source, from heaven or from men?” And they began reasoning among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say to us, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’
They could not answer it, so Jesus pressed on with three parables.
Parable of two sons (vv.28-32) in which he points out about actions need to speak louder than words. Israel was about words, law, but not about love in action. He finishes that one with the kingdom will be opened to others since their actions don’t match their words
32 “For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him; and you, seeing this, did not even feel remorse afterward so as to believe him.
And also because of their unbelief. And that now brings us to our passage today.
Turn in Story Book to pgs. 120-121 and Mt21:33-45 in your Bible
while they are turning tell of it was not out of the ordinary for a landowner to have someone care for a vineyard, leave and come back for harvest. There is symbolic language in this passage so see if you can pick out the characters as we go through it.
What do you see, what do you notice, what sticks out to you?
The Parable
The Parable
Can you pick out the characters, participants? Don’t miss the obvious one.
Jesus (v.33)
Landowner (v.33) - God
Vine-growers (v.33) - Jews
Slaves, more slaves (vv.34, 36) - Prophets
Son - (v.37) Jesus
What can you tell about the vineyard from (v.33)? - it was new, the landowner invested in the land, built the , dug wine press, built a tower:
A tougher question, what is the vineyard? - Israel is considered a vineyard and you can see, read more on that in Isa5:1-7
Who is the landowner if the vineyard is Israel?
The work that the landowner did is symbolic of what God did for Israel, his care, his provision. The going away on a journey can symbolically represent the time after God gave Israel the instructions to care for the vineyard and left them to do their business and keep in line with His instructions, his will.
As for the harvest time, what do you think that represents? - This is the time of accountability, what did the vine-growers do with the vineyard? - What is the Lord going to find when He returns?
Look at this one:
“I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?”
Time of accountability is also time of judgment isn’t it? Is the Lord going to find faith, obedient faith, working faith?
Did the landowner expect to find fruit from the vineyard (v.34)?
Does God expect to find fruit from us? What kind of fruit should we bear? (yes, good fruit)
In (vv.35-36) What did the tenants do?
In (vv.35-36) What did the landowner do?
Who can you deduce the slaves to be?
So now this brings us to the next part of the parable (vv.37-39)
Who did the landowner send next? What did he expect?
What did the vinegrowers (tenant) reason to do and why do you think so?
What did the do, where did they do it?
Now God (landowner) sent His Son with an expectation that they will receive and respect the Son as they would Him.
Why did God expect them to receive and respect the Son? - They were claiming to be followers of God, and if they accepted God they would accept God’s Son, remember this is all spoken as a parable, and there is one point in a parable and Jesus is getting to it, but first has to paint them into a corner, again.
They said to Him, “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, and will rent out the vineyard to other vine-growers who will pay him the proceeds at the proper seasons.”
Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question:
Mt22:
Mt21:41
What did they respond to the parable
“Therefore when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine-growers?”
So how did Jesus paint them into a corner? Does this sound familiar to any other parable you may have read in the bible before?
Maybe you remember the story that Nathan painted in 2Sam12:1-15 to David and then told David he was that man. Well Jesus just did the same thing.
They said to Him, “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, and will rent out the vineyard to other vine-growers who will pay him the proceeds at the proper seasons.”
The Explanation
The Explanation
Jesus is now going to tell them what the parable means after he had painted them into a corner with their response in (v.41)
42 Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, This became the chief corner stone; This came about from the Lord, And it is marvelous in our eyes’?
What is Jesus asking them? Why is that relevant? - Don’t you know the scripture, aren’t you supposed to be the leaders, the wise ones.
This quote comes from Psm118 and whereas there it was a picture of the stone being Israel, Jesus is now showing them that He is the stone the builders are rejecting. And he is the cornerstone (capstone) on which everything will be built. How we can know that is now look at (v.423
43 “Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it.
Who is the kingdom going to be taken away from? - taken from the Jews, the chief priests, the elders. Why? Because they are rejecting the stone
Who is it going to be given to? - those bearing fruit of repentance
8 “Therefore bear fruit in keeping with repentance;
fruit of faith
21 And Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it will happen.
Mt21:
God was bringing to fruition the promise made to Abraham about all nations being blessed by taking away the privilege that the Jews had and giving it to all.
9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
bringing us to (v.44)
44 “And he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust.”
Dire warning with serious consequences when you take the stone lightly or you reject the stone.
Whether crushed by it
44 “In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people; it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever.
or stumble and fall on it.
14 “Then He shall become a sanctuary; But to both the houses of Israel, a stone to strike and a rock to stumble over, And a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 “Many will stumble over them, Then they will fall and be broken; They will even be snared and caught.”
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The results are the same is destruction, brokenness, scattered like dust.
Conviction did not lead to conversion but to wanting to seize Him more
45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they understood that He was speaking about them. 46 When they sought to seize Him, they feared the people, because they considered Him to be a prophet.
Be careful where you stand lest you fall.
12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.
The Jews were confident where they stood and it was to their downfall. We too need to be careful where we stand. We need to stand in faith, we need to stand in obedience, we need to stand in the truth and we need to stand together.