20:9 耶穌就設比喻對百姓說：「有人栽了一個葡萄園，租給園戶，就往外國去住了許久。
20:10 到了時候，打發一個僕人到園戶那裡去，叫他們把園中當納的果子交給他；園戶竟打了他，叫他空手回去。
20:11 又打發一個僕人去，他們也打了他，並且凌辱他，叫他空手回去。
20:12 又打發第三個僕人去，他們也打傷了他，把他推出去了。
20:13 園主說：『我怎麼辦呢？我要打發我的愛子去，或者他們尊敬他。』
20:14 不料，園戶看見他，就彼此商量說：『這是承受產業的，我們殺他吧，使產業歸於我們！』
20:15 於是把他推出葡萄園外，殺了。這樣，葡萄園的主人要怎樣處治他們呢？
20:16 他要來除滅這些園戶，將葡萄園轉給別人。」聽見的人說：「這是萬不可的！」
20:17 耶穌看著他們說：「經上記著：匠人所棄的石頭已作了房角的頭塊石頭。這是甚麼意思呢？
20:18 凡掉在那石頭上的，必要跌碎；那石頭掉在誰的身上，就要把誰砸得稀爛。」
20:19 文士和祭司長看出這比喻是指著他們說的，當時就想要下手拿他，只是懼怕百姓。
9 He went on to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, rented it to some farmers and went away for a long time. 10 At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 11 He sent another servant, but that one also they beat and treated shamefully and sent away empty-handed. 12 He sent still a third, and they wounded him and threw him out.
13 “Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my son, whom I love; perhaps they will respect him.’
14 “But when the tenants saw him, they talked the matter over. ‘This is the heir,’ they said. ‘Let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ 15 So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
“What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 16 He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.”
When the people heard this, they said, “God forbid!”
17 Jesus looked directly at them and asked, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written:
“‘The
stone the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone’[a]?
18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”
19 The teachers of the law and the chief priests looked for a way to arrest him immediately, because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.
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主耶穌這個比喻實在很貼切，因為葡萄園的園戶只是租用者，真正的擁有者是園主。但這些園戶卻像取代園主將葡萄園據為己有，竟然不尊重園主！當園主派僕人去收租時，竟然不給房租還羞辱他們。
主人派兒子去，這一群人更囂張，還要將園主的兒子殺死！
主耶穌這個比喻讓人一看，就知道是指猶太人！因為猶太人一路以來就是逼迫主的先知，軟硬兼施，就是不希望先知宣告上帝的話語。因為他們是悖逆之民，以自我為中心。
而這樣的悖逆之下場，就是被上帝所消滅，因為凡是違背上帝旨意的結局就是和撒但一樣滅亡！
這也是給我們屬主耶穌的人的提醒，要我們不要走猶太人的路，要承認上帝的主權，讓上帝的主權彰顯，如此我們才可以享受永遠的福樂！
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