Hear another parable: There was a certain proprietor householder landowner , which cultivated planted established a orchard vineyard garden , and enclosed hedged fenced it round about, and hollowed digged excavated a vat basin winepress in it, and erected built constructed a structure watchtower tower , and let leased rented it out to tenants husbandmen farmers , and went into a far country: And when the time season period of the harvest produce fruit drew near, he sent his servants workers employees to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husbandmen took his servants, and struck beat thrashed one, and killed slew murdered another, and pelted assaulted stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. But last of all he sent unto them his heir son offspring , saying, They will respect honor reverence my son. But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir successor inheritor ; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his legacy birthright inheritance . And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him. When the owner master lord therefore of the vineyard cometh arrives returns , what will he do unto those husbandmen? They say unto him, He will ruthlessly wretchedly miserably destroy those wicked evil malicious men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render give provide him the fruits in their periods seasons times . Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never examine read study in the scriptures, The stone cornerstone rock which the constructors architects builders rejected, the same is become the chief head pinnacle of the corner: this is the Lord's work doing deed , and it is astonishing marvellous wondrous in our eyes? Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom domain realm of God shall be taken withdrawn removed from you, and given to a community people nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And whosoever shall fall trip stumble on this stone shall be fractured broken shattered : but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will crush grind pulverize him to powder. And when the chief clergy religious leaders priests and authorities elders Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived realized understood that he spake of them.