Jesus began to speak to them [the chief priests, scribes and elders who were questioning Him] in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a wall around it, and dug a pit for the wine press and built a tower; and he rented it out to tenant farmers and left the country.

And at the season he sent a servant to the vinedressers, so that he might receive from the vinedressers the fruit of the vineyard.

But those vinedressers said among themselves, This is the heir! Come, let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours.

Therefore what will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vinedressers and will give the vineyard to others.