12:1 耶穌就用比喻對他們說：「有人栽了一個葡萄園，周圍圈上籬笆，挖了一個壓酒池，蓋了一座樓，租給園戶，就往外國去了。
12:2 到了時候，打發一個僕人到園戶那裡，要從園戶收葡萄園的果子。
12:3 園戶拿住他，打了他，叫他空手回去。
12:4 再打發一個僕人到他們那裡。他們打傷他的頭，並且凌辱他。
12:5 又打發一個僕人去，他們就殺了他。後又打發好些僕人去，有被他們打的，有被他們殺的。
12:6 園主還有一位是他的愛子，末後又打發他去，意思說：『他們必尊敬我的兒子。』
12:7 不料，那些園戶彼此說：『這是承受產業的。來吧，我們殺他，產業就歸我們了！』
12:8 於是拿住他，殺了他，把他丟在園外。
12:9 這樣，葡萄園的主人要怎麼辦呢？他要來除滅那些園戶，將葡萄園轉給別人。
12:10 經上寫著說：匠人所棄的石頭，已作了房角的頭塊石頭。
12:11 這是主所做的，在我們眼中看為希奇。這經你們沒有念過嗎？」
12:12 他們看出這比喻是指著他們說的，就想要捉拿他，只是懼怕百姓，於是離開他走了。
Jesus then began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. 2 At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. 3 But they seized him, beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 4 Then he sent another servant to them; they struck this man on the head and treated him shamefully. 5 He sent still another, and that one they killed. He sent many others; some of them they beat, others they killed.
6 “He had one left to send, a son, whom he loved. He sent him last of all, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
7 “But the tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ 8 So they took him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.
9 “What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others. 10 Haven’t you read this passage of Scripture:
“‘The stone the builders
rejected
has
become the cornerstone;
11 the Lord has done this,
and
it is marvelous in our eyes’[a]?”
12 Then the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders looked for a way to arrest him because they knew he had spoken the parable against them. But they were afraid of the crowd; so they left him and went away.
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祭司長和文士並長老和主耶穌之間有一份潛在衝突存在，雖然當時尚未明顯，但是主耶穌知道自己勢必和這一股力量發生爭戰，因為這股力量是假借上帝的名義，來對上帝的百姓予取予求，當然容不下真正上帝的兒子的存在，不然他們就無法一直把持敬拜上帝的事務。
也因為這樣，他們雖然向猶太人說彌賽亞要來，卻不是真正歡迎彌賽亞的來臨。這是猶太人矛盾的地方，即使是今日他們的拉比仍然說，要等候彌賽亞的來臨，就是不要承認主耶穌是彌賽亞！因為他們承認主耶穌是彌賽亞，會堂文化就無法存在了！
但是基督徒不同，我們必須承認主耶穌是彌賽亞，也就是基督，並切要相信祂必定再來，上帝的國必定要實現！也唯有如此，我們才能有得救的確據，才可以肯定我們有永生！
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