"He [the landlord] sent him to them last of all, thinking, ‘They will respect my son." But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours." (Mark 12: 6 - 7 NABRE)
This is one of the saddest parables in the Gospel. Read the whole story in Mark 12: 1 - 12. The ungrateful and grasping tenants had killed and thoroughly abused other messengers before the landlord sent his own Son.
What is the point of the whole story? The incredible and longsuffering nature of God. No human king or landlord could tolerate a fraction of what these malevolent tenants did. While we are thankful for God's patience with our sins, it will be a mistake to think that this time of grace and mercy will last forever.
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