21:33 「你們再聽一個比喻：有個家主栽了一個葡萄園，周圍圈上籬笆，裡面挖了一個壓酒池，蓋了一座樓，租給園戶，就往外國去了。
21:34 收果子的時候近了，就打發僕人到園戶那裡去收果子。
21:35 園戶拿住僕人，打了一個，殺了一個，用石頭打死一個。
21:36 主人又打發別的僕人去，比先前更多；園戶還是照樣待他們。
21:37 後來打發他的兒子到他們那裡去，意思說：『他們必尊敬我的兒子。』
21:38 不料，園戶看見他兒子，就彼此說：『這是承受產業的。來吧，我們殺他，佔他的產業！』
21:39 他們就拿住他，推出葡萄園外，殺了。
21:40 園主來的時候要怎樣處治這些園戶呢？」
21:41 他們說：「要下毒手除滅那些惡人，將葡萄園另租給那按著時候交果子的園戶。」
21:42 耶穌說：「經上寫著：匠人所棄的石頭已作了房角的頭塊石頭。這是主所做的，在我們眼中看為希奇。這經你們沒有念過嗎？
21:43 所以我告訴你們，上帝的國必從你們奪去，賜給那能結果子的百姓。
21:44 誰掉在這石頭上，必要跌碎；這石頭掉在誰的身上，就要把誰砸得稀爛。」
21:45 祭司長和法利賽人聽見他的比喻，就看出他是指著他們說的。
21:46 他們想要捉拿他，只是怕眾人，因為眾人以他為先知。
33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. 34 When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.
35 “The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. 36 Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way. 37 Last of all, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.
38 “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.’ 39 So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
40 “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”
41 “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.”
42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:
“‘The
stone the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
the Lord has done this,
and it is marvelous in our eyes’[h]?
43 “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. 44 Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”[i]
45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus’ parables, they knew he was talking about them. 46 They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet.
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主耶穌清楚自己必須走十字架的道路，早就有要捨棄生命的準備，即使面對到抵抗的力量也不怕，這正是上帝要成就救恩的方法，所以祂勇敢地說出群自以為有權柄的祭司長們的心中意圖！
從這個比喻中我們看見：以色列民族本來就是殘害先知的民族，他們不願意聽上帝的警告，甚至將說警告的先知一一殺死，以為這樣上帝要降的懲罰就不會臨到！甚至最後上帝差祂的愛子來到世間，還是要面對被殺害的事實。
然而這些人以為這樣就可以勝過上帝，因為他們被罪挾制，所要表現的就是敵對上帝。然而上帝的得勝卻是人無法想像的，就是藉由死破壞罪惡與死亡的力量！當人認為自己勝過上帝的時候，就是被上帝勝過的時候。這是我們無法用我們有限的頭腦所能明白！正如保羅是要逼迫基督的，反而被基督得著！
親愛的弟兄姊妹，我們要感謝上帝，我們能夠信靠主耶穌的人，也是被基督所得著的人，一切都是出於上帝的恩典，不是我們的意志，是基督將我們的意志奪去，使我們能尊基督為主，情願放下自己背十字架來跟從祂！使我們本是悖逆之子，反而成為上帝的兒女！
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