Bible Verses About Husbandman

"Now listen to another parable. There was a farmer who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower; then he rented it to tenants and left.

When harvest-time came, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the crop.

But the tenants seized his servants -- this one they beat up, that one they killed, another they stoned.

So he sent some other servants, more than the first group, and they did the same to them.

Finally, he sent them his son, saying, `My son they will respect.'

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, `This is the heir. Come, let's kill him and take his inheritance!'

So they grabbed him, threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?"

They answered him, "He will viciously destroy those vicious men and rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the crop when it's due."

Yeshua said to them, "Haven't you ever read in the Tanakh, `The very rock which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone! This has come from ADONAI, and in our eyes it is amazing'?

Therefore, I tell you that the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to the kind of people that will produce its fruit!"

Whoever falls on this stone will be broken in pieces; but if it falls on him, he will be crushed to powder!"

As the head cohanim and the P'rushim listened to his stories, they saw that he was speaking about them.

But when they set about to arrest him, they were afraid of the crowds; because the crowds considered him a prophet.

Yeshua began speaking to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the wine press and built a tower; then he rented it to tenant-farmers and left.

When harvest-time came, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the crop from the vineyard.

But they took him, beat him up and sent him away empty-handed.

So he sent another servant; this one they punched in the head and insulted.

He sent another one, and him they killed; and so with many others -- some they beat up, others they killed.

He had still one person left, a son whom he loved; in the end, he sent him to them, saying, `My son they will respect.'

But the tenants said to each other, `This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!'

So they seized him, killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.

What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come, destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others!