The Vineyard Tenants Reject Servants and Son

The vineyard still belongs to the owner, and the son is not disposable

He begins to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, set an hedge, dug a place for the winefat, built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. At the season he sends a servant for the fruit. They catch him, beat him, and send him away empty. Another they wound in the head and send away shamefully handled. Another they kill. Many others: beating some, and killing some. Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sends him last, saying, They will reverence my son. Those husbandmen say among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours. They take him, kill him, and cast him out of the vineyard. What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.

Have ye not read this scripture: The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner: this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? They seek to lay hold on him, but fear the people, for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them. The charge lands on unfaithful stewards who will not give the owner his fruit and who treat the beloved son as a problem to remove. The parable does not teach that the church replaces or dispossesses Jewish people. Judgment on these tenants is not a charter to hate or unhouse Israel.