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November 3, 1991
As Jesus preached His final sermons, the crowds in Jerusalem sensed that a monumental event was approaching. The Pharisees, eager to discredit Jesus, sought to trap Him—but He turned the tables. His parable of the tenants confronted the Jewish leaders with core questions: Just who was Jesus, and what should one do in His presence? Alistair Begg shows us that these questions are as relevant now as they were then. When we hear Jesus proclaim His own authority, will we rebel or submit?
9oAnd he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted pa vineyard and qlet it out to tenants and rwent into another country for a long while. 10When the time came, he sent a servant2 to the tenants, so that qthey would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. sBut the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 11tAnd she sent another servant. But they also beat and utreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed. 12sAnd he sent yet a third. This one also they wounded and cast out. 13Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my vbeloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’ 14But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, w‘This is the heir. xLet us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.’ 15And they ythrew him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 16zHe will acome and destroy those tenants and bgive the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “Surely not!” 17But he clooked directly at them and said, “What then is this that is written:
d“‘The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone’?3
18eEveryone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and when it falls fon anyone, it will crush him.”
19hThe scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people.
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